Sponsored by the two organizations, the HDTV - equipped spacecraft Kaguya entered
lunar orbit last month and went on to shoot a combined eight minutes of crisp video (available here) from a distance of around 60 miles (100 kilometers), offering a panoramic view of the moon's northern topography.
The spacecraft, which entered
lunar orbit last November, can no longer orient itself with high precision.
Not exact matches
For the
last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to
lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.
LADEE is (the name is short for
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer andpronounced «laddie») is an 844 - pound (383 kilograms) spacecraft that launched from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7 and arrived in
orbit around the moon
last month.