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LUNAR ORBITER IV—LUNAR DISC WITH GASSENDI CRATER, MARE HUMORUM, & OCEANUS PROCELLARUM image 1
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LUNAR ORBITER IV—LUNAR DISC WITH GASSENDI CRATER, MARE HUMORUM, & OCEANUS PROCELLARUM

20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
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LUNAR ORBITER IV—LUNAR DISC WITH GASSENDI CRATER, MARE HUMORUM, & OCEANUS PROCELLARUM

Together 4 gelatin silver prints from frame 4143, 17 x 21 inches each, including high res images 143 H1, H2, & H3 which tile together to form a 17 x 63 inch panorama, and medium res image 143 M.

Part of the suite of images taken by Lunar Orbiter IV of the Oceanus Procellarum and its immediate environs. Includes 3 high resolution images, comprising views of the Mare Humorum (143H1), Gassendi Crater (143H2) which was photographed multiple times for several Apollo missions due to its proximity to a runner up location for an Apollo 17 landing site (see Apollo Over the Moon: A View from Orbit, Chapter 5, "Craters"), and the ruined 112-km in diameter Flamsteed P (143H3), with the Surveyor-1 landing site located in the North East quadrant. The medium resolution image of the lunar disc displays Oceanus Procellarum, with the Mare Humorum at its center, as well as the Mares Inibrium, Insularum, Cognitum, Nubium, and Paul Epidemiarum." The objective of Lunar Orbiter IV (LO4) was to provide an expanded photographic survey of the lunar surface, providing far higher resolution imagery than was available from ground based telescopes. Launched on May 4, 1967, LO4 completed 30 successive orbits and took 199 exposures which covered 99% of the lunar surface.

See Bowker & Hughes, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Washington D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971).

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