KAGUYA(SELENE) Education and Public Outreach Activity

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KAGUYA (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer :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 Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Radio source (VRAD) satellite (OUNA). SELENE was successfully launched on September 14, 2007 at Tanegashima Space Center of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and it had been in operation from December 21, 2007 to October 30, 2008. Then, KAGUYA has been in operation as extended period until June 2009. 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 to the scientific utilization of KAGUYA data, 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.