[View of the crater Copernicus on the moon]
Photograph
[View of the crater Copernicus on the moon]
November 23, 1966
Gelatin silver print
Image: 12 3/16 × 13 1/2 in. (31 × 34.3 cm)
Mount: 18 × 16 in. (45.7 × 40.6 cm)
Matted: 20 1/16 × 18 × 3/16 in. (50.9 × 45.7 × 0.4 cm)
Gift of William Vaughn
Inscriptions Applied label in ink on verso, TC:
High Resolution Photograph (Partial Reassembly)Photo No. 66-H-1470This is a portion of the first closeup photograph of the crater\Copernicus, one of the most important features on the face of the moon, taken \ at 7:05 p.m. EST, November 23, by Lunar Orbiter II's 24 inch lens. Looking \ due North across the crater, details in the central part of Copernicus can \ be seen. Mountains rising from the flat floor of the crater are 1000 feet \ high with slopes up to 30º. The 3000 foot high mountain on the horizon is \ the Gay-Lussac Promentory in the Carpathian Mountains. The rim of the crater \ is 11,000 feet above the crater floor. From the horizon to the base of the \ photograph is about 150 miles. The horizontal distance across the part of \ the crater shown in this photograph is about 17 miles. Lunar Orbiter was/ 28.4 miles above the lunar surface and about 150 miles due South of the center \ of Copernicus when the picture was taken. The photograph was transmitted from \ the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, California on \ November 28.
Lunar Orbiter is managed for NASA by the Langley Research Center. \ The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington is the prime contractor. The Photo- \ graphic subsystem was designed and fabricated by Eastman Kodak Company.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BR: 16
High Resolution Photograph (Partial Reassembly)Photo No. 66-H-1470This is a portion of the first closeup photograph of the crater\Copernicus, one of the most important features on the face of the moon, taken \ at 7:05 p.m. EST, November 23, by Lunar Orbiter II's 24 inch lens. Looking \ due North across the crater, details in the central part of Copernicus can \ be seen. Mountains rising from the flat floor of the crater are 1000 feet \ high with slopes up to 30º. The 3000 foot high mountain on the horizon is \ the Gay-Lussac Promentory in the Carpathian Mountains. The rim of the crater \ is 11,000 feet above the crater floor. From the horizon to the base of the \ photograph is about 150 miles. The horizontal distance across the part of \ the crater shown in this photograph is about 17 miles. Lunar Orbiter was/ 28.4 miles above the lunar surface and about 150 miles due South of the center \ of Copernicus when the picture was taken. The photograph was transmitted from \ the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, California on \ November 28.
Lunar Orbiter is managed for NASA by the Langley Research Center. \ The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington is the prime contractor. The Photo- \ graphic subsystem was designed and fabricated by Eastman Kodak Company.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BR: 16
