Awesome stuff. JAXA is the Japanese version of NASA, NHK is their version of PBS, except everyone with a TV has to give them money.

Has their been any footage yet over the moon landing sites?

Still awesome.

I saw this on the Bad Astronomy blog at Discover Magazine.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/05/kagu yas-jaw-dropping-moon-video/

Refer Fez's question is answered there.

This mission is over soon, and JAXA is going to deliberately crash the satellite into the moon - That's the video I want to see!

I shat moonrocks.

All the curves and bumps! I have high hopes that JAXA will provide a zen garden rake-bot to smooth it all out.

Is science awesome?
Y/N

Richard Dawkins's opinion of whether you should fuck off or not hinges on answering the question correctly.

Sound is broken.

That was quite peaceful

FUN FACT: This orbiter was named after Princess Kaguya from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, considered to be the oldest folk tale in Japanese history. Either that, or it was named after the character from the Touhou Project games. However, they are technically one in the same, so I guess this thing was inadvertently named after a video game character.