KAGUYA (SELENE)

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KAGUYA (SELENE)

Antoniadi taken by HDTV (low altitude)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched "KAGUYA (SELENE)" by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle at 10:31:01 a.m. on September 14, 2007 (JST) from Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC). 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. The orbiters will carry instruments for scientific investigation of the Moon, on the Moon, and from the Moon.

KAGUYA was descended to the 50km altitude from February 1, 2009 and then was descended again to 10-30km in Lower altitude (Perilune) from April 16, 2009. Finally, KAGUYA was impacted to the south-east of near side of the Moon on June 10, 2009 (GMT).

We are very appreciated for your support to KAGUYA mission.

KADIAS (KAguya Data Integrated Analysis System)

KAGUYA Image Gallery

KAGUYA Data Archive

The SELENE Data Archive will be closed on September 29, 2017. Kaguya data will continuously be provided on the SELENE Planetary Data System (PDS) site *1 and the KADIAS (KAguya Data Integrated Analysis System)*2. We hope that Kaguya data contributes to your research and activities ongoingly. *1:PDS *2:KADIAS

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"Result of KAGUYA"
Oct 25, 2017: Detection of Intact Lava Tubes at Marius Hills on the Moon by SELENE (Kaguya) Lunar Radar Sounder(Tetsuya Kaku, Junichi Haruyama, et al. GRL)
Aug 10, 2017: Evidence of impact melt sheet differentiation of the lunar South Pole-Aitken basin(Kisara Uemoto et al. JGR)
Jan 30, 2017: Biogenic oxygen from Earth transported to the Moon by a wind of magnetospheric ions(Kentaro Terada et al. Nature Astronomy)
Dec 27, 2016: The plasmapause formation seen from meridian perspective by KAGUYA(Go Murakami et al. JGR)
Sep 27, 2016: Calibration method of wave polarization data obtained by KAGUYA/WFC(Yoshitaka Goto et al. Radio Science)
May 2016: Development of an Application Scheme for the SELENE/SP Lunar Reflectance Model for Radiometric Calibration of Hyperspectral and Multispectral Sensors(Toru Kouyama et al. P&SS)
Dec 19, 2015: Featureless spectra on the Moon as evidence of residual lunar primordial crust(Satoru Yamamoto et al. JGR)
Nov 10, 2015: Two-Stage Development of the Lunar Farside Highlands Crustal Formation(Keiko Yamamto et al. P&SS)
May 9, 2015: Surface vector mapping of magnetic anomalies over the Moon using Kaguya and Lunar Prospector observations(Hideo Tsunakawa et al. JGR-Planets)
May 7, 2015: Global occurrence trend of high-Ca pyroxene on lunar highlands and its implications(Satoru Yamamoto et al. JGR-Planets)

*For all pagers*: Result of KAGUYA