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LUNAR ORBITER II. "THE PICTURE OF THE CENTURY" — OBLIQUE VIEW INTO CRATER COPERNICUS, 24 NOVEMBER, 1966.

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LUNAR ORBITER II. "THE PICTURE OF THE CENTURY" — OBLIQUE VIEW INTO CRATER COPERNICUS, 24 NOVEMBER, 1966.

LUNAR ORBITER II. "THE PICTURE OF THE CENTURY" — OBLIQUE VIEW INTO CRATER COPERNICUS, 24 NOVEMBER, 1966.

Estimate:

3,000

to
- 5,000 USD

LUNAR ORBITER II

"THE PICTURE OF THE CENTURY" — OBLIQUE VIEW INTO THE HEART OF CRATER COPERNICUS, 24 NOVEMBER, 1966. 


Super glossy, high-contrast vintage silver gelatin contact print, 20 x 23 3/4 inches, of Lunar Orbiter image II-162H3.


A super glossy, high contrast print of the image hailed by Life Magazine as "The Picture of the Century." Taken from approximately 28.4 miles above the lunar surface, from a vantage point of 150 miles south of the crater. Until this photo was taken, the few images that had been taken of the lunar surface were from a perpendicular angle - this was the first to be taken from an oblique angle, and thus the first ever view of the rugged surface, with its mountains and valleys. 


LITERATURE

See Bowker & Hughes, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon; Illustrated in: Cortright, Exploring Space with a Camera, p 89.

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