I have not seen this on the board before, but I may be wrong.

The Japanese space agency JAXA has published the first HD video of the moon.
You can see the video here (takes a while to download and it might be nice if you can read Japanese)

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Very cool video- thank you for the link! I do wish I could read the text, but even without being able to it's a worthwhile wait for the download.

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Ok, now I'm curious, if theres anyone there that can translate the Japanese, that'd be great.
Is there anything stating how fast or what distance, etc...

Thanks

Last week's first HDTV is noted in an article in the topic: Kaguya: Japan's lunar orbiter, along with links to desciptive materials.

This week's cooler still video of earthrise is noted in an article in the topic: Kaguya: Japan's lunar orbiter.

I didn't look hard when I first viewed either video, and I only read a smattering of Japanese, and I'm not going to look at it right now to confirm -- especially since their server is probably slow now that word is out -- but the Japanese text that I understood, gave some of the sort of details that are also in the English-language press releases: subjects, dates, positions etc.

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Great!
So it was 100 km away from the moon.. didn't seem that way.
I really enjoyed the night side of the moon.