Kaguya
JAXA bring us up close and personal with HD video of the Moon taken by the lunar orbiter Kaguya.
Here’s just one of many videos available on their YouTube channel:
Life in The Oort Cloud
…is fairly quiet
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The CGI is okay, I guess…
I know there are people who think the lunar landing was faked, but I didn’t realize that there is a “the moon is fake” camp as well.
Speaking of which, has this orbiter found the Apollo landing site yet?
Sites. There were actually six of the Apollo missions that resulted in successful lunar landings: 11 through 17, excepting 13. Images taken by Kaguya show the same landscapes as those of the various photographs taken by astronauts in these missions. Unfortunately the nature of its surveying equipment doesn’t register smaller objects, so the images don’t show items such as flagpoles, rovers. This is explained briefly here on the JAXA website.
But googling Kaguya Apollo will take you to a ton of other relevant webstuffs.
Oh, it can’t see things that small, huh? How convenient.