Five views of the Moon as seen by the five lunar orbiters, Lunar Orbiter 1 to 5, August 1966 - September 1967 Vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), with NASA captions on versos, the first BLACK NUMBERED S-66-55238 (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and NASA Headquarters), (5) Footnotes: Gambart area (Lunar Orbiter 1), the first primary landing target in the eastern Sea of Tranquility (Lunar Orbiter 2), secondary landing site 7 near Crater Dembowski (Lunar orbiter 3), the Alpine valley of the Moon north of Mare Imbrium (Lunar Orbiter 4), landing target V-51 in the Marius Hills. Lunar Orbiter was the first robotic spacecraft to take high resolution photographs of the whole Moon from lunar orbit, offering amazing never before seen views of Earth's satellite, from a perspective different from Earth. Soviet spacecrafts had already sent back whole Moon images, but mostly very crude. The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. The film was processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth with incredible resolution for the time.
Five views of the Moon as seen by the five lunar orbiters, Lunar Orbiter 1 to 5, August 1966 - September 1967 Vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), with NASA captions on versos, the first BLACK NUMBERED S-66-55238 (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and NASA Headquarters), (5) Footnotes: Gambart area (Lunar Orbiter 1), the first primary landing target in the eastern Sea of Tranquility (Lunar Orbiter 2), secondary landing site 7 near Crater Dembowski (Lunar orbiter 3), the Alpine valley of the Moon north of Mare Imbrium (Lunar Orbiter 4), landing target V-51 in the Marius Hills. Lunar Orbiter was the first robotic spacecraft to take high resolution photographs of the whole Moon from lunar orbit, offering amazing never before seen views of Earth's satellite, from a perspective different from Earth. Soviet spacecrafts had already sent back whole Moon images, but mostly very crude. The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. The film was processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth with incredible resolution for the time.
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