Private Japanese Moon Lander's View Of Solar Eclipse Shadow And Earth

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Japanese company iSpace's Hakuto-R lander captured amazing views of the the Earth during a solar eclipse and more during its journey to a moon landing attempt.   Credit: iSpace

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00:00This first image, Hakamada-san, look at it, it's just beautiful.

00:04Yeah, beautiful and very incredible pictures taken from our land.

00:11It is truly amazing how a privately funded spacecraft can capture the moon and the earth like this and send the image back.

00:21Now, Hitachi-san, looking at this, I think this image also contains some scientific, very, very interesting speciality.

00:29Can you explain it a bit more?

00:31Oh, yes, yeah. So this is the picture of the Earth's light on the moon.

00:37But most interestingly, you know, as you can see, if you can take a very close look at the Earth,

00:42so we see actually the shadow of the moon on the Earth.

00:46So you see that black spot there, close to the austral area.

00:51So this is actually the shadow of the moon.

00:53So we took this picture during the solar eclipse.

00:57So it's really interesting to see this kind of phenomena, not from the Earth, but from the lunar orbit.

01:05So this is very interesting and very exciting picture.

01:08Thank you, Hitachi-san. And I believe we also have a video that I would like to share with you.

01:15Wow.

01:18Hakamada-san, doesn't this look amazing?

01:22Well, this is real video.

01:24Yes.

01:25Not CG.

01:26Oh, it's amazing.

01:30It's really hard to believe, but it looks amazing.

01:35So Hitachi-san, we see something in the lower part of the video. What is this?

01:41Yes, I think this is a part of the hour lander.

01:43So this is a part that we call MLI, a multi-layer installation.

01:50And we see the plasma logo on the right-hand side.

01:55So it's really amazing to see this shadow and the bright part and the shadow part of the moon,

02:03because there is no atmosphere on the moon.

02:05So we can clearly see the lunar surface.

02:08And this is really amazing video.

02:10I'm really amazed.

02:15And I believe we have one more image.

02:20Yet again, a video.

02:28Hakamada-san.

02:30Well, another amazing video.

02:33I cannot tell any words.

02:37Beautiful.

02:38It really transcends words and is just amazing.

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