Private Japanese Moon Lander's View Of Solar Eclipse Shadow And Earth
Japanese company iSpace's Hakuto-R lander captured amazing views of the the Earth during a solar eclipse and more during its journey to a moon landing attempt.
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00:00 This first image, Hakamada-san, look at it, it's just beautiful.
00:04 Yeah, beautiful and very incredible pictures taken from our land.
00:10 It is truly amazing how a privately funded spacecraft can capture the moon and the earth like this and send the image back.
00:20 Now, Hitachi-san, looking at this, I think this image also contains some scientific, very, very interesting speciality.
00:29 Can you explain it a bit more?
00:30 Oh, yes. Yeah. So this is the picture of the earth light on the moon, but most interestingly, you know, as you can see, if you can take a very close look at the earth,
00:42 so we see actually the shadow of the moon on the earth.
00:46 So you see that black spot there, that close to the austral area?
00:51 So this is actually the shadow of the moon.
00:53 We took this picture during the solar eclipse, so it's really interesting to see this kind of phenomena, not from the earth, but from the lunar orbit.
01:04 So this is very interesting and very exciting picture.
01:07 Thank you, Hitachi-san. And I believe we also have a video that I would like to share with you.
01:13 Wow.
01:16 Hakamada-san, doesn't this look amazing?
01:21 Well, this is real video. Not CZ.
01:25 No. It's amazing.
01:27 It's really hard to believe, but it looks amazing.
01:34 So Hitachi-san, we see something in the lower part of the video. What is this?
01:40 Yes, I think this is a part of our lander.
01:43 So this is a part that we call MLI, a multi-layer MLI, and we see the Platinum logo on the right-hand side.
01:54 So it's really amazing to see this shadow and the bright part and the shadow part of the moon,
02:03 because there is no atmosphere on the moon, so we can clearly see the surface.
02:07 This is really amazing video. I'm really amazed.
02:13 Thank you. And I believe we have one more image.
02:18 Yet again, a video.
02:22 Hakamada-san.
02:28 Well, another amazing, well, video. I cannot tell any word.
02:34 Beautiful.
02:37 It really transcends words and is just amazing.