Lunar Probe's High Definition View of the Earth

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There's nothing as nice as a pretty view of our home planet. It really puts things in perspective. I'm on that planet, and so are you. It's a high definition image of the Earth, of course, captured on September 29th by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya (aka Selene) from a distance of 110,000 km. It's currently in Earth-orbit, but on October 3rd, it'll begin transferring its orbit to the Moon.

As to the actual mission,

here's an article

we posted a couple of weeks ago, when the spacecraft was launched. We'll report back with further updates, for now, just enjoy the pretty picture.

JAXA News Release

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.