SELENE, nicknamed Kaguya after a princess in Japanese folklore, was a lunar orbiter launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on an H-IIA rocket. It was Japan's largest lunar mission since the Apollo programme and carried instruments to map the Moon's composition, gravity field, topography and magnetic field, as well as high-definition cameras. Its images included views of the Earth rising over the lunar horizon, filmed in high definition, which became famous. It also released two small relay satellites to help measure the far side's gravity. After about a year and a half of operations, the spacecraft was deliberately crashed into the Moon's surface in June 2009.
Before and after
- 4 August 2007Launch of Phoenix
- 17 August 2007Premiere of Phineas and Ferb
- September 2007Launch of Pornhub
- from 8 September 2007 to 23 November 2012Premiere of iCarly
- 14 September 2007Launch of SELENE
- from 18 September 2007 to 17 December 2012Premiere of Gossip Girl
- from 24 September 2007 to 16 May 2019Premiere of The Big Bang Theory
- 27 September 2007Launch of Dawn
- October 2007Discovery of TrES-4 b
More in Universe & space
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- 14 September 1974Discovery of Leda
- 24 May 1981Discovery of Larissa
- 22 August 1981Discovery of Pan
- 18 September 1989Discovery of Naiad
- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
The era
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