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
Replica of a Lunar Orbiter spacecraft
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)
Lunar Orbiter 1
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The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of
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Spacecraft orbit and photographic coverage on the near side (left) and far side (right)
Launch of Lunar Orbiter 1 from an Atlas-Agena rocket on August 10, 1966
The first image of Earth from the distance of the Moon, August 23, 1966. The image (frame 1102; image 102 of Lunar Orbiter 1) consists of three parts h1-h3. Since its original publication its raw analog data has been used to digitally produce the image in higher resolution and clarity (see below). This probe took a second such image on August 25.