High-Def Video from Lunar Orbit
The Japanese have released video taken from lunar orbit using an HDTV camera. Unfortunately, it’s been released as a Flash movie, and the size is fairly limited (both probably due to bandwidth issues), so it’s not as spectacular as one would like (I personally want this in 720p Quicktime). And since the link was posted on Slashdot, I suspect they’ll be having bandwidth problems anyway pretty soon. The video itself is “intermittant shooting” at an 8x compression (i.e., the one-minute film covers 8 minutes of elapsed time).
[UPDATED 11/10/07 0955 MST]
Here’s a high-def photo from the JAXA website:
Very cool. ..bruce..