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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00:00This first image, Hakamada-san, look at it, it's just beautiful.
00:04Yeah, beautiful and very incredible pictures taken from our land.
00:11It is truly amazing how a privately funded spacecraft can capture the moon and the earth like this and send the image back.
00:21Now, Hitachi-san, looking at this, I think this image also contains some scientific, very, very interesting speciality.
00:29Can you explain it a bit more?
00:31Oh, yes, yeah. So this is the picture of the Earth's light on the moon.
00:37But most interestingly, you know, as you can see, if you can take a very close look at the Earth,
00:42so we see actually the shadow of the moon on the Earth.
00:46So you see that black spot there, close to the austral area.
00:51So this is actually the shadow of the moon.
00:53So we took this picture during the solar eclipse.
00:57So it's really interesting to see this kind of phenomena, not from the Earth, but from the lunar orbit.
01:05So this is very interesting and very exciting picture.
01:08Thank you, Hitachi-san. And I believe we also have a video that I would like to share with you.
01:15Wow.
01:18Hakamada-san, doesn't this look amazing?
01:22Well, this is real video.
01:24Yes.
01:25Not CG.
01:26No.
01:27It's amazing.
01:30It's really hard to believe, but it looks amazing.
01:35So Hitachi-san, we see something in the lower part of the video. What is this?
01:41Yes, I think this is a part of our lander.
01:43So this is a part that we call MLI, multi-layer MLI.
01:50And we see the Platinum logo on the right-hand side.
01:55So it's really great.
01:56It's really amazing to see this shadow and the bright part and the shadow part of the moon,
02:03because there is no atmosphere on the moon, so we can clearly see the lunar surface.
02:08This is really amazing video.
02:10I'm really amazed.
02:15And I believe we have one more image.
02:20Yet again, a video.
02:28Hakamada-san.
02:30Well, another amazing video. I cannot tell any words.
02:36Beautiful.
02:38It really transcends words and is just amazing.