Lunar Orbiter program
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The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed Moon-orbiting missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surfac
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft
A flight-spare Lunar Orbiter Photographic Subsystem is on display at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y.
Lunar Orbiter camera (NASA)
A detail of an original image at the top, compared to a reprocessed version at the bottom created by LOIRP.
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)