[Chaos-l] Earth rise in HD

[Terry Crook]

Thx. AOL and/or their narrator fumbled a few significant details, regrettably!

We have long since seen & photographed the 
backside & the 'craters within craters' is not unique to that side.
The distance from Earth is more like 300 thousand 
Km, not 300 million! Maybe he's using British 
terminology for 100 thousand (they'd say one 
million, at least for monetary figures) or he 
said "300 million meters", an odd way to say it, 
having earlier said the probe was "100 Km above 
the lunar surface". Actual average Earth-Lunar 
distance is closer to 384K kilometers anyhow.
The JAXA technique for the mini-satellites 
spin-launch was very interesting/clever!
Check out the Planetary Society website for a 
better HD photo. I copied/printed it on a high 
quality inkjet (Canon) with good photo-grade 
paper. It mounts nicely in simple black 
frame.  http://planetary.org/news/2007/1113_New_Image_EarthRise_in_HDTV.html

At 10:22 AM 1/14/2008, Jayme Hanzak wrote:

>I was watching the news the last week when a 
>story about Earth rise from the moon was shown. 
>The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has a probe in 
>orbit around the Moon. Here is a story that describes the probes mission.
>
>http://video.aol.com/video-detail/hd-earthrise/304895752
>
>Jayme
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TaurusTerry in Chapel Hill, NC
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