Lunar Orbiter 4
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Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and
Image taken by Lunar Orbiter 4, showing the Moon with a crescent Earth in the background. Enhanced by LOIRP.
Replica of a Lunar Orbiter spacecraft
Spacecraft orbit and photographic coverage on the near side (left) and far side (right)
Launch of Lunar Orbiter 4 from an Atlas-Agena rocket on May 4, 1967
Lunar Orbiter 5
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Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moo
Lunar Orbiter 4
…photographic data from May 11 to 26, 1967, and readout occurred through June 1, 1967. The orbit was then lowered to gather orbital data for the upcoming Lunar Orbiter 5 mission. A total of 419 high-resolution and 127 medium-resolution frames were acquired, which covered 99% of the Moon's near side at resolutions from…
Spacecraft orbit and photographic coverage on the near side (left) and far side (right)
Image of the Earth taken by Lunar Orbiter 5, enhanced by LOIRP
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus on August 13, 1967 (20°30′N 9°54′E / 20.5°N 9.9°E / 20.5; 9.9)