History of Science & Technology, Including the Life and Letters of Richard P. Feynman, and Space Exploration

History of Science & Technology, Including the Life and Letters of Richard P. Feynman, and Space Exploration

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Lunar Orbiter II

Oblique View of Sinus Medii Toward the Hershel Crater, 21 November, 1966

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LUNAR ORBITER II

Oblique View of Sinus Medii toward the Hershel Crater, 21 November, 1966


Vintage silver gelatin contact print of Lunar Orbiter image II-93M, 16 5/8 x 17 in., matted and framed under glass to 23 x 27 in.; not examined out of frame.

The present image, taken by Lunar Orbiter II at an altitude of 44 kilometers, depicts an oblique view of the lunar landscape from an oblique view looking south over Sinus Medii toward the crater Hershel.


LITERATURE:

NASA, NASA Contractor Report, NASA CR-883, Lunar Orbiter II, Photographic Mission Summary, Seattle, WA: The Boeing Company, October 1967, p. 28