Kaguya Spacecraft Crashes into the Moon


	Kaguya Spacecraft Crashes into the Moon

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6-29-2009 9:31 AM

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<B> Explanation: </B>
Japan's Kaguya spacecraft crashed into the Moon last week, as planned.
Officially named the
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenology">Selenological</A>
and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), the spacecraft was given the nickname Kaguya after the princess in the Japanese folklore story 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter">The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter</A>.
<A href="http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/06/20090619_kaguya_hdtv_e.html">Pictured above</A> is a movie taken by Kaguya during the last orbit of its 
twenty-month lunar mission.
A <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031109.html">desolate</A>, hilly, and cratered terrain passes underneath as the spacecraft barely clears a few peaks.  
At <A href="http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/06/20090619_kaguya_hdtv_e.html">the movie</A>'s end, the spacecraft disappears into darkness 
<A href="http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/06/20090611_kaguya_e.html">near GILL crater</A>.
Robotic <A href="http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/selene/index_e.html">SELENE</A> carried thirteen scientific instruments and two 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV">HDTV</A> cameras.
The <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun">groundbreaking</A> mission took data on lunar topology and composition that are being used to better understand the origin and history of Earth's 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon">unique and ancient companion</A>.
Data and images from 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE">Kayuga</A> 
and the recently launched 
<A href="http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter</A> 
could be used to choose good locations to land future 
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051217.html">Moon-exploring astronauts</A>.  
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