12-March-2008, 07:22 AM
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Planetary Society Weblog: LPSC: Kaguya sessions
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I have to say I was a bit disappointed by the Kaguya session. Nearly every image that was shown has been available on their website for months, and most of the talks spent most of the time summarizing the capability of the instruments, not in displaying any new science results or data products. Having said all that, I think that just summarizing the mission was important.
I went to three of the presentations. The talks were very well attended -- a few hundred people were in the audience. The first presentation was an overview given by Manabu Kato, who mentioned as part of his talk that the data from the mission will be archived and released to the public one year after the end of the nominal mission, which was supposed to last one Earth year. They began nominal science operations on December 21 last year, so for Christmas 2009 we should be getting 10 Terabytes of lunar data under the tree.
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As [Jun'ichi Haruyama, Terrain Camera person] spoke, his PowerPoint slide of the Terrain Camera view of Shackleton slowly wiped from a normally stretched view to an extremely enhanced view, where sunlit areas were saturated and permanent-shadow areas were faintly visible. Just at the moment that the entire floor of Shackleton crater was revealed to the room's view -- to a chorus of "oohs" and "aahs" from the audience -- the image flickered back to the normally stretched view, and there was a groan of disappointment.
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