Background on Japan's 'Moon Goddess'?

I don't know if you are talking about Japan's lunar exploration satellite "Moon Goddess" or the Japanese legend about the Moon Goddess.

Both give you information about it.

Tokyo time on the 14th 10:31 (Beijing time 9:31), Japan's "Moon Goddess" lunar exploration satellite aboard the H2A-13 rocket, from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center successfully lifted off, embarked on a journey to explore the moon. Japanese scientists say the "Moon Goddess" program is the world's largest lunar exploration activities after the U.S. "Apollo" moon landing program, but also Japan launched the first around the moon exploration satellite.

Gale force winds and rain showers over the past few days have left everyone at the Tanegashima Space Center uncertain about whether the Moon Goddess can be launched on schedule. It rained heavily near midnight on the 13th, but fortunately cleared up around 9 a.m. on the morning of the 14th.

At 10:31 a.m., the rocket carrying the "Moon Goddess" automatically ignited and left the Osaki launch site, heading southeast over the Pacific Ocean. The press center was about 3.6 kilometers from the launch site, but from the terrace, the floorboards shook slightly.

After 45 minutes and 34 seconds in the air, the rocket put the satellite into a transfer orbit and separated from it, after which the satellite orbited the Earth twice. During this process, Moon Goddess will turn on its solar wings and high-gain antenna and adjust its orbit to fly to the moon. The satellite will enter an elliptical orbit around the moon about 20 days after launch.

Structure

Moon Goddess with two children

According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Moon Goddess will be launched on about the 35th day after liftoff. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the "Moon Goddess" will enter a circular observation orbit 100 kilometers from the surface of the moon and fly over the moon's poles on about the 35th day after liftoff. The two sub-satellites carried by "Moon Goddess" will be separated from the main satellite and enter their respective elliptical orbits about 10 and 7 days before the main satellite enters the observation orbit, respectively.

"Moon Goddess" of the length and width of the dimensions are 2.1 meters, the height of 4.8 meters, and its carrying two sub-satellites when the total mass of 3 tons. The main satellite **** equipped with a fluorescence X-ray spectrometer, gamma ray spectrometer, lunar radar depth sounder, lunar magnetometer and other 14 kinds of instruments, some of which the detection accuracy of the same kind of instruments in the past 10 times or even 100 times.

Mission

Searching for lunar magma oceans

One of the main purposes of the Moon Goddess's trip is to search for definitive evidence of whether magma oceans have existed on the Moon. The magma ocean is the key to unlocking the mystery of the moon's birth. If the magma ocean did exist, the hypothesis that the moon was formed by the collision of other celestial bodies with the Earth will be strongly supported. Other missions of the "Moon Goddess" include exploring whether a magnetic field existed at the beginning of the moon's life, finding answers to the question of whether there was water on the moon, studying historical lunar volcanism, measuring the moon's gravity field, and studying the moon's plasma environment and its evolution below the surface of the moon.

Background

Japan's path to the moon

Japan's space technology is a leader in Asia, and its astronautics program, which ranges from ultra-fast space planes and spy satellites to high-propulsion rockets and international research on human spaceflight, covers almost all the important areas of spaceflight, and its international space cooperation is very frequent. "

Japan's Moon Goddess was the first Japanese probe to orbit the moon, and in 1990, Japan launched a lunar probe that only flew over the moon, not around it.

Japan launched the "Moon Goddess" program in 1998, and has gradually put a series of lunar exploration programs on the agenda. A vision formulated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in March 2005 states that Japan plans to launch unmanned probes that can go to the moon within the next 10 years, and aims to set up an unmanned exploration base on the moon's surface in 20 years' time.

China to launch Chang'e-1 in second half of year

China has planned to launch a lunar satellite called Chang'e-1 in the second half of 2007 to take 3-D pictures of the moon. China also plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface by 2010. In recent years, the world has seen a new wave of lunar exploration

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Composed at the beginning of the 10th century, "The Takeshi Monogatari" is Japan's earliest The story is about a man who cuts down bamboo in the middle of a forest. The story is about a bamboo cutter who found a beautiful little girl in the heart of a bamboo, who grew up in 3 months and was named "Hosotake Heikei". 5 noble sons proposed to her, and she promised to marry the one who could find her favorite treasure, but all of these suitors were defeated. However, the suitors all failed, and the emperor's attempt to marry her by force with his power was also rejected. Hee-yeong-hee suddenly ascended to heaven in the midst of all these mundane people's bewilderment.

The Takeshi Monogatari pioneered a new type of literary creation. "For the first time in the history of Japanese literature, the inner world of human beings is vividly displayed -- Kaguya-hime is not only a proud and intelligent girl who defies power and responsibility and uses her intelligence to thwart covetousness, but also an affectionate girl who is full of pure filial piety to her adoptive parents. Kaguya-hime's calmness, wit, contradiction and melancholy are expressed through her speech, her smile, her behavior and her living mental activities. With fine language skills and beautiful words, it combines authenticity and biography, reality and ideal, beauty and ugliness, disillusionment and immortality in a harmonious and antagonistic way.

The Takeshi Monogatari, with its fine language skills and gorgeous words, combines authenticity and legend, reality and ideal, beauty and ugliness, disillusionment and immortality in opposition yet in harmony in a whole.

Every Japanese is familiar with [the story of Kaguya-hime] at the beginning of his or her childhood, and thus receives the extraordinary flavor of this work in the early years of his or her life. When they recall the story later in their lives, they are struck by the beauty of the dreams and the purity of the feelings.

The story of Kaguya-hime, a beautiful woman who was born on the moon and fell into the world of mortals, is one that every Japanese is familiar with from the earliest days of their childhood, and so they realize the extraordinary flavor of this work at the very beginning of their lives that they are able to recall it later in their lives. When they recall this story later in their life's journey, they will be shocked by the extremely ethereal beauty of the dream and the purity of the feelings. By reading "The Takeshi Monogatari", which is equivalent to our "The Goddess of the Seals" and "The Mirror's Flower Edge", you can enter the world of classical Japanese literature with its clear and elegant style. ......

Summary:

"The Takeshi Monogatari" is the pioneer of a new type of literati literature. "For the first time in the history of Japanese literature, the inner world of human beings is vividly displayed - Kaguya-hime is not only a proud and intelligent girl who defies the powerful and the rich and thwarts the covetous with her wisdom, but also an affectionate girl who is full of pure filial piety to her adoptive parents. The calmness, wit, contradiction and melancholy of Kaguya-hime's character are expressed through her speech, her knitted brows, her behavior and her living psychological work. With fine language skills and gorgeous words and phrases, it blends truthfulness and legend, reality and ideal, beauty and ugliness, phantom heaven and immortality in an antagonistic yet harmonious way in a whole.

Scenes of the wonderful story:

I The Birth of Kaguya Hime

Once upon a time, there was an old man. He used to go to the mountains to cut bamboo and make bamboo baskets, bamboo cages, and other wares, which he sold to others to make ends meet. His name was Sanuki Zomaru. One day, he went to cut bamboo as usual. He saw a bright light coming from one of the bamboo poles. He thought it was strange, so he went closer and saw that there was light coming out of the bamboo tube. When he came closer and examined it more closely, it turned out that a small man, about three inches long, was living inside. So the old man said, "You live in the bamboo that I see every day, so of course you are my child." So he took the child in his hands and brought it home.

The old man gave the child to the old woman at home to raise. The child grew very lovely and beautiful, and her body was so small that she had to be kept in a basket.

Since the old man had gotten the child, every time he went to cut down bamboo, he found much gold in the bamboo tubes. So the old man became a rich man very quickly.

The child grew up day by day under the old woman's care, just as a bamboo shoot turns into a bamboo. After thirty months, the child was turned into a girl. So the old woman put her hair in a bun and dressed her in a skirt. And the old man kept her in his house, and would not let her go out, but loved her exceedingly. Meanwhile, the child grew more and more beautiful, so that the house was filled with light up to her, and there was no darkness anywhere. Sometimes when the old man's heart was troubled, he saw the child, and all his pain and trouble disappeared. And when he was angry about something, he saw the child, and immediately his heart was at peace.

The child grew up. The old man went to the Mimurodo district and asked a man named Akita Saibe to give her a name. Akita named her "Kaguya-hime of the Young Bamboo". It can also be written as "Kaguya-hime," meaning that she shone brightly even at night. After the name was given, the old man threw a big banquet and invited various kinds of dancers and singers to perform. All the people in the neighborhood, young and old, were invited to the feast, which lasted for three days.

The second marriage proposal

The beauty of Kaguya Hime spread from one to the other, and all the men in the world, rich or poor, wanted to marry this Kaguya Hime. They just heard the Kaguya Hime person, already in a trance, the fire of desire in the heart burning, hope that even if only to see one side is also good. However, the people near Kaguya-hime's house and even those who lived next door to her house could not see Kaguya-hime's face, not to mention other men. Those who were obsessed with Kaguya-hime's appearance would stay up all night, digging a hole in the wall and peering through it to console their feelings. From this time on, this behavior was called cheating. Most people, however, just walked around at night with no one there to see them. They had the courage to ask her family for information, but they often stammered and stuttered. Yet no one paid them any attention. They were not annoyed, though they would meet with a rebuff, especially the princes and kings, who could not leave the place, and many of them walked here day and night.

Those who knew that they had no hope, and that it was in vain to wander here, turned back and came no more. But there were fifty famous people who always continued to come and imitate. They still dreamed day and night. One of them was the Prince of Shiho, another was the Prince of Cheju, another was the Right Minister, Master Abe, and another was the Great Nayan, Oyasumi Miyuki, and the last was the Middle Nayan, Ishigami Maru. People like them, whenever they heard of a beautiful woman anywhere, even if it was just an unusual one, they wanted to go and see it immediately. When they heard of Kaguya-hime's great name, their hearts were even more excited, and they were so spellbound that they wasted their sleep and food; they often wandered around Kaguya-hime's house at a loss, but to no avail. They often wandered around Kaguya-hime's house, but to no avail. They wrote letters and sent them, but received no reply. Some of them claimed to be lovesick and wrote poems of lost love and sent them, but still there was no answer to Shia. They knew that all methods would not be effective, but they never gave up, no matter how cold it was in the third quarter of the year, the days of ice and snow, or when it was hot in summer and June, when there were thunderstorms, they still continued to visit constantly. One day one of them called the old man out, bowed y, and pleaded with him, "Please marry your daughter to me!" The old man simply replied, "She is not my daughter by birth; I cannot make a decision for her."

Time flew by.

These people returned home, still haunted. Some, suffering from a lack of solutions, went to the gods and prayed for their blessing to marry Kaguya-hime; others made a wish to the Bodhisattva to help him forget the woman. But all this was still useless. So they went back to their original thought: despite what the old man said, could the woman remain unmarried for life? So they wandered around Kaguya-hime's house as usual, trying to show their sincerity.

When the old man saw this, he said to Kaguya-hime, "My noblest girl! You are the reincarnation of a god or a Buddha, not the child of my old man. But after all, it was I who took the trouble to raise you to adulthood, so can you listen to me for the sake of this little bit of hard work of mine?"

Kaguya-hime replied, "Oops! I will listen to any words. But you say that I am the reincarnation of a divine Buddha, I know nothing of that now. I only know that you are my real father Naiya!"

The old man said, "Ah, that could not be better! I am now past my ancient age. I may say that today or tomorrow, I will scatter my hands and die. I have one thing to say to you: as a person, as long as has been born in this world, the man must marry his wife, the woman must marry her husband, this is the rule of the world. Only in this way can the gateway grow and the population flourish. It is you, who should also follow this path yet."

Kaguya-hime said, "There is such a thing, but I just don't want to."

The old man said, "Listen to me! Although you are the reincarnation of a god or a Buddha, you are still a woman. Now that I am still alive in the world, I might as well live my life like this. If I die, what should you do? Those five men, who have come for years to seek imitation from afar, show that they are y in love with you. They all declare that they want to marry you. You should make up your mind early and make a choice to be betrothed to one of them, what do you think?"

Kaguya-hime replied, "Alas, how vulgar these people are. To be betrothed to a person without knowing the other person's heart will teach one to regret it if he later changes his mind. No matter how high the status of the other person is or how good he looks, to betroth him without knowing his heart, I will never agree."

"Well, you have a point," the old man nodded in agreement. Again, he said the same thing, "So, what kind of person do you really want to be betrothed to? All five of those men seem to be very sincere with you."

Kaguya-hime replied, "As for what kind of person it should be, I don't have any special requirements, just one small one. Since of the five people recorded, no matter which one is sincere, it's impossible to tell which one is superior and which one is inferior? Then, I hope that whoever can fetch me my favorite thing will be the most sincere, and I will be that person's wife. Please say this to them."

"That is indeed a good idea." The old man voiced his approval.

The five men came in the evening. Some of them played flutes, some sang songs, some chanted waka, some played mouth chords, and some beat the beat with their fans. They did this for no other reason than to draw Kaguya-hime out. The old man came out and addressed them:

"O lords, you are not worthy to come to my barren place after so many long years! I have passed the age of old age, and am like a candle in the wind, and I am at the end of my days. Therefore I have said to my girl, that she should consider seriously, and choose a husband among you five earnest lords of the city. The girl said, 'How can I know to what extent they love me?' And there was truth in that. She added, 'It is difficult to tell which of you five lords is superior and which is inferior. Therefore, whoever among the five of you can bring her her favorite thing to her will show who loves her the most, and she will marry him. I thought that was a good solution, and none of you will resent me."

When the five men heard this, they all said, "That is indeed a good way." The old man then went in and conveyed this to Kaguya Hime.

The Kaguya-hime said, "Well then, you will say to the Emperor Shiho that there is a stone bowl of the Buddha in the Celestial Kingdom, and ask him to go and fetch it for me.

"Say to the royal son of the Cheju, that there is a mountain of Penglai in the East Sea, and that there is a tree on the mountain, whose roots are of silver, and whose trunk is of gold, and that the village bears the fruit of alabaster, and tell him to go and fetch and bring it for me.

"Tell that right minister to fetch me the fire-rat furs of Tang Tu. Tell the great Nayan to fetch me the jade that glows with five colors on the dragon's head. As for the middle nayan on the stone, tell him to fetch me a swallow's zi'anbei."

The old man said with difficulty, "Alas, this is making things difficult for them. These are not all the things in the country. How can I ask them to open their mouths and convey something so difficult?"

Seeing the old man's difficulty, Kaguya Hime said, "What's so difficult about it! You just go ahead and say it to them."

The old man went out and delivered Kaguya-hime's words as they were. The princes and dignitaries heard it, and were so stunned that they said, knowing themselves to be hopeless, "It would have been better for you to ask such a difficult question, than to say with alacrity, 'You are not permitted to linger here.'"' Everyone hung his head and went home.