Solar Eclipse from Lunar Orbit: "Earth's Diamond Ring" | Japan SELENE Mission

Solar Eclipse from Lunar Orbit: "Earth's Diamond Ring" | Japan SELENE Mission

This is the kind of spectacular view astronauts will enjoy on NASA's Artemis missions to the Moon. Scheduled to launch in 2025, Artemis II will be the first crewed flight since the Apollo missions. During a roughly ten-day mission, NASA's Orion spacecraft will loop around the Moon before heading back to Earth.

Japan's robotic lunar orbiter SELENE Mission: "The largest lunar mission since the Apollo program" (2007-2009)

Kaguya’s two main high definition TV (HDTV) cameras, each a 2.2 megapixel CCD HDTV camera, took the first high-definition images of the Moon.

The SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE), Japan’s first large lunar explorer, was launched by a H-IIA carrier rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on September 14, 2007 (JST). It was better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya. It was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe. It was produced by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA).

Learn more about Japan's historic SELENE mission here:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/kaguya/in-depth/

https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/missions/spacecraft/past/kaguya.html

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Video Credit: JAXA/NHK Kaguya Orbiter Archive

Duration: 52 seconds

Release Date: July 9, 2009

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