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.

00:05Yeah, beautiful and then very incredible pictures taken from our London.

00:12It is truly amazing how a privately funded spacecraft can capture the moon and the earth like this and send the image back.

00:21Now, Hichitachi-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 closer 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 Australia.

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.

01:04So this is very interesting and very exciting picture.

01:08Thank you, Hichitachi-san.

01:09And I believe we also have a video that I would like to share with you.

01:14Wow.

01:16Hakamada-san, doesn't this look amazing?

01:21Well, this is real video.

01:23Yes.

01:24Not CZ.

01:25No.

01:26It's amazing.

01:27It's really hard to believe, but it looks amazing.

01:33So Hichitachi-san, we see something in the lower part of the video.

01:39What is this?

01:40Yes.

01:41I think this is a part of the hourlander.

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

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

01:55So it's really great.

01:56It's really amazing to see this shadow and the light part and the shadow part of the moon.

02:03Because there's no atmosphere on the moon, so 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.

02:29Well, another amazing well video.

02:33I cannot tell any word.

02:36Beautiful.

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

02:42So...

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