JAXA / USGS / NASA Kaguya/SELENE Terrain Camera Observations

Description

The Japan Aerospace EXploration Agency (JAXA) SELenological and ENgineering Explorer (SELENE) mission’s Kaguya spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007 and science operations around the Moon started October 20, 2007. The primary mission in a circular polar orbit 100-km above the surface lasted from October 20, 2007 until October 31, 2008. An extended mission was then conducted in lower orbits (averaging 50km above the surface) from November 1, 2008 until the SELENE mission ended with Kaguya impacting the Moon on June 10, 2009. These data were collected in monoscopic observing mode. To create these analysis ready data, we have taken the JAXA Data ARchives and Transmission System (DARTS) archived data, map projected the data to equirectangular or polar stereographic (pole centered) based on the center latitude of the observation, and converted to a Cloud Optimized GeoTiff (COG) for online streaming. These data use a priori spacecraft ephemerides (for the nominal mission) and improved, but not controlled spacecraft ephemerides for the extended mission. Therefore, these uncontrolled data are not guaranteed to co-register with other data sets.

Update Frequency

The Kaguya/SELENE mission has completed. No updates to this dataset are planned.

License

CC0 1.0

Documentation

https://stac.astrogeology.usgs.gov/docs/data/moon/kaguyatc/

Managed By

See all datasets managed by NASA.

Contact

https://answers.usgs.gov/

How to Cite

JAXA / USGS / NASA Kaguya/SELENE Terrain Camera Observations was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/jaxa-usgs-nasa-kaguya-tc. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SH5YNV

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Discovering and Downloading Data via the Command Line by J. Laura
  
• Discovering and Downloading Data with Python by J. Laura
  
• Querying for Data in an ROI and Loading it into QGIS by J. Laura
  

Tools & Applications

• PySTAC Client by PySTAC-Client Contributors