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11.23.09

Company Wants to Carve Ads On The Moon, Supervillain-Style

By Dan Smith Posted 07.20.2009 at 11:16 am 8 Comments

Last week, a fly-by of the moon showed impressions remaining on the surface from the Apollo 11 landing. That was 40 years ago, and those impressions linger on undisturbed. It's that longevity that one company wants to exploit, carving messages into the surface in the moon for the purpose of selling ad space.

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HDTV From the Moon

By Gregory Mone Posted 11.09.2007 at 11:02 am 1 Comment

Last week, Japan's KAGUYA lunar explorer—the mission formerly known as SELENE—shot the first-ever high-definition clips of the Moon. KAGUYA is designed to help scientists learn more about the origin and evolution of the Moon, and to develop technology for further exploration in the future. It's actually a series of three spacecraft: two small satellites in polar orbit, and a larger one hovering 62 miles above the surface.

Filming from about 62 miles away from the surface, the camera system inside the biggest spacecraft recorded two clips, one near the Moon's north pole, the other of a western region known as Oceanus Procellarum. It's actually pretty amazing, and so much sharper than traditional images of the lunar surface that it makes you think it's an animation, and not video.—Gregory Mone

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