Japans Satalite with HD video of the moon

[phyzik]

Here's footage from Japans new satalite, thats equiped with HD camera's, as it flies over the moon. Kinda slow to download but its pretty cool.

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/200...a_movie_e.html

[sa_butta]

thats bad ass.

[jman3000]

it is taking a load of time... and im using a pretty good connection right now.

[Shelly]

Maybe this is why I can't get a signal to the upstair's receiver. Working fine downstairs.

[phyzik]

ya, Im on a company network and it was pretty slow, I can only imagine on my home network.

[Wild Cobra]

I don't get it. What's the point of bringing up the HD aspect of it and show it in low res?

I don't know about you guys, but 480 x 272 doesn't do it for me. That's not even standard TV quality. HDTV starts at 1280 x 720. This laptop I’m using is 1440 x 960. It should have almost filled the screen.

[Wild Cobra]

ya, Im on a company network and it was pretty slow, I can only imagine on my home network.

It was fine on my limited home network. It loaded faster than it played, so I had no complaints.

[BacktoBasics]

but but won't this reveal all the governments secret moon labs?

[FromWayDowntown]

It must have cost them the GNP of several small nations to build the studio in which they filmed that footage.

[phyzik]

It must have cost them the GNP of several small nations to build the studio in which they filmed that footage.

Star Trek basement material for sure. They should have took tips from Lucas Films on special effects.

[E20]

That looks pretty fake and digitized.

[Nbadan]

Cool - I say they take high-def images of the Apollo landing spots (which should still be completely undisturbed, including the Flag) and blow that conspiracy theory out of the water once and for all.....

[Wild Cobra]

Cool - I say they take high-def images of the Apollo landing spots (which should still be completely undisturbed, including the Flag) and blow that conspiracy theory out of the water once and for all.....

To bad it's 2.2 megapixel telephoto has a 15 degree angle. At a 100 km orbit height. Anyway, it appears to have a 7:4 nonstandard ratio which placed it at about 1960 by 1120 pixels, but it could be the standard 1920 x 1080, but that's only 2.1 megapixel. Regardless, 1960 pixels into a 15 degree path at 100 km is about 13-1/2 meters per pixel, or about 44 feet per pixel. It would be impossible to see the lunar module with that camera.

http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.htm

[Avitus1]

Pretty good now lets use this satellite for evil!