KAGUYA(SELENE) Education and Public Outreach Activity

Abstract

KAGYA(SELENE) is the most sophisticated lunar exploration mission in the post-Apollo Era and consists of the main orbiter and two small satellites – the Relay satellite (OKINA) and the VRAD satellite (OUNA). SELENE was successful launched on September 14, 2007 at Tanegashima Space Center of JAXA and it had been in opeartion from December 21, 2007 to October 30, 2008. Then, KAGUYA has been in operation as extended period. KAGUYA data will be used for studying “lunar origin and evolution” and “exploration” of the Moon and will be archived and distributed in PDS-like format with the descriptions of data format and technical information (data format description is planning to be ready by the launch.). In addition with KAGUYA data scientific utilization, JAXA also deployed KAGUYA education and public outreach (EPO) activity to promote space activity to public, especially to next generation. This paper describes the overview of KAGUYA EPO activity and results.