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 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"
Jan 4, 2022
: An event study on broadband electric field noises and electron distributions in the lunar wake boundary(Masaki N. Nishino, et al. Earth, Planets and Space)
Sep 2, 2021: Investigation of the source region of the lunar-meteorite group with the remote sensing datasets: Implication for the origin of mare volcanism in Mare Imbrium(Hiroshi Nagaoka, et al. Icarus)
Jul 21, 2020: Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA(Kentaro Terada, et al. Nature Communications)
May 6, 2020: KAGUYA observation of global emissions of indigenous carbon ions from the Moon(Shoichiro Yokota, et al. Science Advances)
Oct 10, 2019: Volcanic history in the Smythii basin based on SELENE radar observation(Ken Ishiyama, et al. Scientific Reports)
Aug 27, 2019: Potassium and Thorium Abundances at the South Pole‐Aitken Basin Obtained by the Kaguya Gamma‐Ray Spectrometer(Masayuki Naito, et al. JGR Planets)
Aug 01, 2019: Decrease of the interplanetary magnetic field strength on the lunar dayside and over the polar region(Masaki N. Nishino, et al. Icarus)
Jul 19, 2019: Tidal resonance of eigenmode oscillation in the early Earth's ocean and its acceleration effect on the Moon's orbital evolution(Mai Motoyama, et al. Icarus)
Nov 20, 2018: Global classification of lunar reflectance spectra obtained by Kaguya (SELENE): Implication for hidden basaltic materials(Makoto Hareyama, et al. Icarus)
Jan 08, 2018: Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves Detected by Kaguya and Geotail in the Earth's Magnetotail(Tomoko Nakagawa, et al. JGR)
Dec 06, 2017: Iron distribution of the Moon observed by the Kaguya gamma-ray spectrometer: Geological implications for the South Pole-Aitken basin, the Orientale basin, and the Tycho crater(Masayuki Naito, et al. Icarus)
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)
Jun 28, 2017: Lateral heterogeneity of lunar volcanic activity according to volumes of mare basalts in the farside basins(Masako Taguchi, et al. JGR)
Jun 1, 2017: Magma source transition of lunar mare volcanism at 2.3Ga(Shinsuke Kato, et al. Meteoritics and Planetary Science)
Apr 6, 2017: Kaguya observations of the lunar wake in the terrestrial foreshock: Surface potential change by bow-shock reflected ions(Masaki N. Nishino, et al. Icarus)
Jan 30, 2017: Biogenic oxygen from Earth transported to the Moon by a wind of magnetospheric ions(Kentaro Terada et al. Nature Astronomy)

*For all pagers*: Result of KAGUYA