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Japan's KAGUYA (which translates as Selene) lunar orbiter is carrying one of the first space-rated HDTV cameras. It's still in shakedown, but has started sending back some spectacular imagery. JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has turned some of the imagery into two rather wonderful movies - one of Earthrise, and one of Earthset.

The two Flash movies are quite slow to load, so I grabbed a couple of screen caps of Earthset.





Beautiful.

...and this is why (in the words of one of the Daily Show writers):



Sure, my words aren't on screen, but I like being paid for them. I figure these guys deserve to be paid for theirs too.

It's interesting to note that an apparently worthless medium (according to the media companies) is rapidly becoming the key tool in getting the WGA message across to the world.