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Japan Moon Probe Snaps First Photos
mrcgran writes "Space.com reports, "Almost one month after Japan's successful launch of the Kaguya lunar probe, the unmanned observatory has begun its first major activities in orbit around the moon. In addition to snapping its first lunar images, the probe jettisoned one of two 110-pound (50-kilogram) "baby" satellites that will help create a detailed gravity map of the moon." The major objectives of the "KAGUYA" mission are to obtain scientific data of the lunar origin and evolution and to develop the technology for the future lunar exploration. "KAGUYA" consists of a main orbiting satellite at about 100km altitude and two small satellites (Relay Satellite and VRAD Satellite) in polar orbit."
I, for one, am sick to death of welcoming 50 kilogram robotic overlord after 50 kilogram robotic overlord, only to have them fly off to the moon after a month or so, leaving us high, dry, and overlordless back here on Earth!
John
Nothing like a freaking high gain antenna smack-dab in the middle of every freaking shot.
That's supposed to be the tripod, I believe someone got fired...
....did they find our fake moon landing set yet?
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
...SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!
What about the buggy thingamees that they left up there?
Everything left on the moon worked perfectly! (That slapping sound you hear is a horde of retired NASA engineers throwing down gauntlets)
I want to see if these conspiracy theories can be put to rest for good. Can they photograph the equipment left behind?
These are people who don't accept the existing film, photographs, hunks of moon rock, etc, as evidence; more photos won't make a scrap of difference. The only way to refute conspiracy theorists is to take them to the moon and push them out an airlock without a space suit so they can experience the low gravity and hard vaccuum first hand (and even then they'd probably use their last breath attempting to argue that it couldn't have been done in the 1960's...).
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On the moon, nerds are spanked with moon-rocks!
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
President Truman: Get this saucer to Area 51.
General: But that's where we're building the set for the fake moon landing.
President Truman: Then we'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them to get off their fannies.
When they snap the Apollo landing sites and see two sets of footprints leaving the capsule..
..and three returning that you need to start worrying.
Nah, I'm no so amused about the landing site, it's the enormous "Kilroy was here" on the darkside of the moon I'm wait for....
Geez, nothing but pictures of itself! Should have named it PRINCESS.
...darn.
...but it can pick up the giant Killroy okay, right?
They diden't even *try* to discredit the moon landing.
:)
And *thats* what makes the whole thing so suspicious!
Then it's obviously a fraud perpetrated by the Japanese. As a user of Google Moon, I am well aware of the fact that the Moon is yellow at high resolutions.
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
- Ministry
A Ridiculous Liberal Myth!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."