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 2
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The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe la
Spacecraft orbit and photographic coverage on the near side (left) and far side (right)
Near Ariadaeus B crater on November 19, 1966 (4°50′N 15°32′E / 4.83°N 15.53°E / 4.83; 15.53)
Area east of Gambart crater on November 23, 1966 (1°04′N 12°27′W / 1.07°N 12.45°W / 1.07; -12.45)