Lunar Orbiter III - 80mm Lens Medium Resolution Photograph of Site S-21.5 (KI-3091)
Photograph
Lunar Orbiter III - 80mm Lens Medium Resolution Photograph of Site S-21.5 (KI-3091)
February 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 15 7/16 × 13 1/2 in. (39.2 × 34.3 cm)
Mount: 17 15/16 × 15 15/16 in. (45.5 × 40.5 cm)
Gift of William Vaughn
Inscriptions typed on applied label affixed to mount verso, TC: Lunar Orbiter III - 80mm Lens [underlined] \ Medium Resolution Photograph of Site S-21.5 (KI-3091) [underlined] \ This photograph of the backside of the moon was taken near \ apolune (about 1850 kilometers). The lunar area seen includes the \ equator and the south pole (on the horizon). This photograph overlaps \ slightly a comparable photograph taken by Orbiter II, and includes a \ large area shown in a similar photograph from Orbiter I. \ A photograph taken simultaneously by the 24 inch high resolu- \ tion lens shows details of the large central crater Tsiolkovsky and \ the immediate area. Tsiolkovsky is about 150 miles in diameter; it \ was named by Russian scientists.
inscribed in pencil on applied label affixed to mount verso, TC: 5
inscribed in pencil on applied label affixed to mount verso, TC: 5
