[Oblique view of the moon and the crater Copernicus]
Photograph
[Oblique view of the moon and the crater Copernicus]
November 23, 1966
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13 7/16 × 13 7/16 in. (34.2 × 34.2 cm)
Mount: 18 × 15 15/16 in. (45.7 × 40.5 cm)
Gift of William Vaughn
2000.0636.0015
Inscriptions typed on applied label affixed to mount verso, TC: Medium Resolution Photograph [underlined] \ Photo No. 66-H-1469 [underlined] \ This oblique view of the moon recorded by Lunar Orbiter II shows \ the crater Copernicus just below the horizon. The photograph was taken at \ 7:05 p.m. EST on November 23, using the 80mm lens and with the spacecraft \ cameras tilted 17º from horizontal. Copernicus, 60 miles across and 2 miles \ deep, was formed by the impact of a giant meteorite. The rim of the crater \ is surrounded by angular blocks, up to 150 feet across, ejected by the impact. \ Strings of craters in the foreground were probably formed by the impact of \ fragments ejected from the large crater. Keyhole shaped crater in foreground \ is Fauth, about 13 miles long and 4500 feet deep. It lies 33 miles south of \ Copernicus. \ 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 applied label affixed to mount verso, TC: 15
inscribed in pencil on applied label affixed to mount verso, TC: 15
