At 8:20AM EDT June 23, live streaming video from NASA's current LCROSS lunar flyby mission!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/lunarswingby/
And yesterday, Japan's lunar mission ended with a controlled, very low-angle, skimming crash onto the moon. Part of the idea of the crash was to create a new crater with an object of known speed, direction and mass to use as a reference point in gauging the age and impactor-size of other lunar craters.
The Japanese craft ran narrow-field (but HD!) cameras up to the moment of impact, which occurred just over the moon's terminator, in darkness. But most of the final moments of the craft, skimming over the moon's surface, were captured:
http://tinyurl.com/nq7mmm
An earlier video from the same probe (also hi def):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1mc42J76Q
"This is a reconstruction of its final approach, based on flight data."
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find the actual footage? (http://tinyurl.com/nq7mmm)
I probably just don't know where to look.
And, it's a shame about the comments at the YouTube one. I don't blame the guy for disabling them.