JAXA - KAGUYA (SELENE) Last shots captured by the HDTV.

At 3:25 on June 11 2009, Kaguya safely (!) impacted with the Moon’s surface.

I watched that day, on Tanegashima Island, as the rocket burst into the sky and powered towards the distant moon, carrying it’s satellite cargo. And now that same satellite’s long, long journey
has come to an end. It’s a strange and sad feeling to think of it crashing into the surface of the moon, up there, all those miles away.
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moonbell : listening to the topography of the moon.

Lunar orbiting satellite Kaguya (SELENE) was launched from Tanegashima Space Center on September 14, 2007 at 10:31am.

Kaguya is currently orbiting the moon, taking observations of the lunar surface with 14 different sensors.

moonbell uses data from one of those sensors, a laser altimeter, or LALT, transforming the altitude data into musical intervals.

Space Shuttle against the Sun (NASA)

 
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