Emily Lakdawalla • Oct 03, 2007
Kaguya update: More Earth images and video
On Monday I posted a still image of Earth taken by the HDTV camera aboard Kaguya. They have now posted the video that the still image of Earth came from. It isn't much, only a one-minute video representing eight minutes of real time, which is hardly long enough to see any motion; but Earth does rotate just a little bit from the beginning to the end. Here's a blink animation of the first and last frames of the video (thanks to nop on unmannedspaceflight.com, who grabbed it from a Japanese-language discussion forum):
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