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Photographic Results of the Lunar Orbiter Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

William E. Brunk
William E. Brunk*
Affiliation:
NASA, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

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The principal goal of the Lunar Orbiter program was to obtain photographic coverage of selected areas of the lunar surface at resolutions of 1 and 8 m. As the success of the program was greater than originally anticipated, the photographic coverage was extended to include the entire front side of the Moon at a resolution one order of magnitude greater than possible from the Earth and almost all of the far side. In this paper, a selection of photographs obtained from all five missions will be presented.

Type
Special Meetings
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 1: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1967 , 1968 , pp. 471 - 523
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1968