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Lot 129

LUNAR ORBITER V—CRATER COPERNICUS

20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
New York

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LUNAR ORBITER V—CRATER COPERNICUS

Together 4 gelatin silver prints from frame 5152, 17 x 21 inches each, including high res images 152 H1, H2, & H3 which tile together to form a 17 x 63 inch panorama, and medium res image 152 M.

Part of the suite of images taken by Lunar Orbiter V of Copernicus crater and its immediate environs. Includes 3 high resolution images, comprising views of the central peaks, the crater floor, and the local ejecta blanket, as well as 1 medium resolution image of the right 90% of the entire crater. Frame 152H1 captures one of the central peaks that was photographed at exceptionally high resolution by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2012. Launched on August 1, 1967, Lunar Orbiter V was the final LO mission, and was tasked with taking additional detailed photographs of potential Apollo landing sites. Between August 6 and 18 it took 174 photographs during 69 orbits.

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

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