Looks animated...

this looked cool with some as i lay dying playing on my itunes.

I for one welcome our Earthling overlords.

I've seen that planet up close.

"Now you know"? I know what it looks like in a crappy little box on a computer screen. I would LOVE to know what it looks like in HD. The link only has a lower res vid too...

"And then they squeezed the thing down to a miserable 480 x 270 pixels; heavily compressed etc..."

Sigh. Where is the "HD" in that?

Any hope for some HD footage of the waving American flag... Someone wants to win a 5 year old bet.

@beneditor:

Yeah, I'm slightly miffed by that, too. What's the use of touting HD when they only make available something that's only slightly better than SD?

Then again, with somebody like NHK (kinda like BBC) behind the HD technology, I can understand why: they want to keep the HD content exclusive to their TV shows. Still miffed to think that it's my tax Yen that went into the spacecraft :p

wait, if there was sound, what exactly would we hear?

Its sad to think the blue planet might end up looking like the grey one in the foreground...

it really is.

@BobbyMills: You would hear cheese.

This was shot inside a studio. Lame and Useless.

@Saad Rabia: yeah. the shadows are all wrong. multiple light sources as if made by studio lighting mannnnnn!

so what has the [www.flatearthsociety.org] said about this?

@twoback: uggh its [www.theflatearthsociety.org]

@BobbyMills:

You'd hear like this high screeching kind of singing voices, then you will hear "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. Quite amazing, really.

This is HD.

This... is... NOT HD!!!

MOONINITES! TONIGHT, WE DINE AT CARL'S HOUSE!

@dearhaw: I agree. I want to see it in HD, dammit!

I wonder if the camera is zooming or moving.

Look at the crater that appears with 1:41 left. Did the Kaguya/Serene monster truck over it without shaking the camera at all?
I don't think it is a zoom, because watch how the horizon disappears as if the moon is rotating, and the rover is moving away from the rotation.

All in all, without further proof, I have doubts of the source of this video.

How was your vacation Addy? You and Jesus were greatly missed.

@itchytooth: I LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK!

Tinkle tinkle in a car, you should really use a jar. I HAVE GINGIVITIS!

Since nerds aren't necessarily up on the children's cartoons, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, greatest character ever is Cheese. And if this was already one of those jokes that was brought up in a previous post, well, i must have missed that day.

NOW WE'RE BROTHER LADIES!

Oooh, I can see myself... and there's my car... and my apartment...

It's not HD, it's a flashvideo movie. HD is HD is HD. Nothing to see here. move along.

@BobbyMills: either fart noises, or the sound of yen being flushed down the bidet!

They can put an HD camera on the moon but they can't attach microphone? C'mon!

@filmtex: No S**T. Did you read the caption? I too want to see the HD. It is probably coming from JAXA on their site.

Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, but if it were made of spare ribs, would you eat it? I know I would.

@weatherman: A microphone would be useless on the moon since a microphone works by air pressure waves, and there is none of that on the moon. You would hear... nothing.

@BostonK: Kent Brockman right?

@lowmax: Would that be the "filmed in studio bet"? The flag "waves" because of oscillation not wind. There is no atmosphere to slow to oscillation. Gravity has to do it, and, as we all know there is only about 25% of that on the moon as compared to the earth.

@x23: What multiple light sources? I see one. The sun behind the craft and to the left of camera.

Most people just don't understand how things work in micro gravity without an atmosphere. We are used to things working a certain way on earth, and have no real experience of how things work out of our atmosphere and on another "planet". You cannot compare what you see in a video on another world and what you expect to happen based on your visual experience on earth. Just does not work that way.

no mic?.... further proving that
In space, no one can hear you scream

@NZRUSS: OMFG

HOW?

@nightsky: Didn't the flag fall down after the lunar space craft left? Maybe that's the bet, whether or not the flag is still there.

And I agree with the first post, looks like an animation.

so is it on Blu-Ray or HD DVD?

I am so glad to see a new photo of our home, to illustrate just how small our wars are in the big picture. I keep hoping the people that think fighting, violence, and conflict means anything needs to be stuck on the moon and have them look back at the earth.

Why no HD? Fire up the torrents JAXA!

If you fart in space after eating nothing but tang and freeze dried ice cream, in zero gravity, will the fart eventually dissipate or can you come back fifteen minutes into the same corner you were in and smell it. The space Buttercup!