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LUNAR ORBITER IV—MARE SMYTHI AND ENVIRONS

20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
New York

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LUNAR ORBITER IV—MARE SMYTHI AND ENVIRONS

Together 2 sheets, each sheet made up of five 17 x 32 inch gelatin silver prints on vintage 1967 Kodak Paper from frame 4018, consisting of high res images 18 H1, H2, & H3. Each print watermarked "A Kodak Paper" on verso, and annotated in left margin with "IV 6C H-18 LF 09 G4-5". The two sheets, which are separately matted, framed and glazed, together form a 17 x 64 inch panorama.

Part of the suite of images taken by Lunar Orbiter IV of the Mare Smythi and its immediate environs. Includes all 3 high resolution images from frame 18, comprising views of Craters Jansky & Kepler (18H1), the Mare Marginis and craters Goddard, Ibn Yunis, & Al-Biruni (18H2), and craters Joliot, Rayleigh, and Hubble (18H3).
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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