Japan releases images of moon surface
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-11-08 11:08
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In this photo made out of an Oct. 31, 2007 HDTV image released by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Japan's national broadcaster NHK, a large crater called 'Repsold' with a diameter of 107-kilometer (66.5 miles), foreground center, and a channel called 'Repsold Valley,' about 180 km (112 miles) in length, that crosses the crater, are shown on the west side of the moon's Oceanus Procellarum, or Ocean of Storms. The still photo released on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, was made out of the HDTV moving images of the moon taken for the first time in the world by an HDTV camera, developed specially by NHK for the use in the space and installed on Japan's first lunar probe SELENE's main satellite in orbit at an altitude of about 100 kilometers (60 miles), Tokyo-based JAXA and NHK said in their release Wednesday. [Agencies]
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