LUNAR ORBITER I: THE FIRST IMAGE OF THE EARTH AS SEEN FROM THE MOON.Silver gelatin print panorama, August 23, 1966, approximately 22 x 55 1/4 inches (556 x 1401 mm) overall, photo number I-102, "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on the verso.
Impressively-large panorama—over 4 1/2 ft long—of this classic first photograph taken of the Earth from the Moon; an image that changed our perception of the planet, taken by the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter program sent a series of 5 uncrewed probes over the period of a year to photograph the lunar surface in order to help select Apollo landing sites as well as to accurately map the Moon. The first three probes were dedicated to photographing 20 potential crewed landing sites and the fourth and fifth missions were high altitude orbits that contributed to capturing images of 99% of the lunar surface.
The Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were each equipped with two cameras that simultaneously captured two different fields of view and resolutions, but on the same line of sight and they were recorded to a common supply of 70mm film. The cameras were part of a photographic system that also included a film processor and a readout scanner so the images could be transmitted to Earth.
LUNAR ORBITER I: THE FIRST IMAGE OF THE EARTH AS SEEN FROM THE MOON.Silver gelatin print panorama, August 23, 1966, approximately 22 x 55 1/4 inches (556 x 1401 mm) overall, photo number I-102, "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on the verso.
Impressively-large panorama—over 4 1/2 ft long—of this classic first photograph taken of the Earth from the Moon; an image that changed our perception of the planet, taken by the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter program sent a series of 5 uncrewed probes over the period of a year to photograph the lunar surface in order to help select Apollo landing sites as well as to accurately map the Moon. The first three probes were dedicated to photographing 20 potential crewed landing sites and the fourth and fifth missions were high altitude orbits that contributed to capturing images of 99% of the lunar surface.
The Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were each equipped with two cameras that simultaneously captured two different fields of view and resolutions, but on the same line of sight and they were recorded to a common supply of 70mm film. The cameras were part of a photographic system that also included a film processor and a readout scanner so the images could be transmitted to Earth.
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