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Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the " Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional
Apollo
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and Surveyor landing site photography
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and to take broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation
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* ''electromagnetic radiation'', such as radio waves, microwaves, infrared, vi ...
intensity, and micrometeoroid
A micrometeoroid is a tiny meteoroid: a small particle of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram. A micrometeorite is such a particle that survives passage through Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface.
The term "micrometeoro ...
impact data and was used to evaluate the Manned Space Flight Network tracking stations and Apollo Orbit Determination Program.
Mission Summary
The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and on August 5, 1967 was injected into an elliptical near polar lunar orbit with an inclination of 85 degrees and a period of 8 hours 30 minutes. On August 7 the perilune was lowered to , and on August 9 the orbit was lowered to a , 3 hour 11 minute period. The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 6 to 18, 1967, and readout occurred until August 27, 1967. A total of 633 high resolution and 211 medium resolution frames at resolution down to were acquired, bringing the cumulative photographic coverage by the five Lunar Orbiter craft to 99% of the Moon's surface. Accurate data were acquired from all other experiments throughout the mission. The spacecraft was tracked until it struck the lunar surface on command at 2.79 degrees S latitude, 83 degrees W longitude ( selenographic coordinates) on January 31, 1968. Features on the near side of the Moon that were photographic targets included Petavius,Hyginus
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, Messier Messier may refer to:
People with the surname
* Charles Messier, French astronomer
*Éric Messier, former NHL defenseman
*George Messier, French inventor
* Jean-Marie Messier, former CEO of Vivendi Universal
*Marc Messier, Canadian actor from Quebe ...
, Tycho Tycho is a masculine given name, a latinization of Greek Τύχων, from the name of Tyche ( grc-gre, Τύχη, link=no), the Greek goddess of fortune or luck.
The Russian form of the name is '' Tikhon'' (Тихон).
People
Given name
* Tych ...
, Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formula ...
, Gassendi, Vitello
Vitello ( pl, Witelon; german: Witelo; – 1280/1314) was a friar, theologian, natural philosopher and an important figure in the history of philosophy in Poland.
Name
Vitello's name varies with some sources. In earlier publications he was quo ...
, Mons Gruithuisen Gamma
Mons Gruithuisen Gamma (γ) is a lunar dome that lies to the north of the crater Gruithuisen at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium.
This massif is shaped as a rounded dome in the surface, occupying a diameter of 20 km and climbing ge ...
, Prinz, Aristarchus, Vallis Schroteri, Marius Hills
The Marius Hills are a set of volcanic domes located in Oceanus Procellarum on Earth's Moon. The domes are thought to have formed from lavas fairly more viscous than those that formed lunar mares. These domes average approximately in height ...
, Montes Apenninus, Rimae Plato, Sinus Aestuum
Sinus Aestuum (Latin ''sinus aestuum'' "Seething Bay") forms a northeastern extension to Mare Insularum. It is centered at selenographic coordinates 12.1° N, 8.3° W, and it lies within a diameter of about 320 km.
The Sinus Aestuum is a l ...
, Hipparchus
Hipparchus (; el, Ἵππαρχος, ''Hipparkhos''; BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equ ...
, Rimae Sulpicius Gallus, Rimae Calippus, Censorinus
Censorinus was a Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer from the 3rd century AD.
Biography
He was the author of a lost work ''De Accentibus'' and of an extant treatise ''De Die Natali'', written in 238, and dedicated to his patron Quintus ...
, Dionysius, and the future landing site of Apollo 11.
See also
* Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project *Exploration of the Moon
The physical exploration of the Moon began when '' Luna 2'', a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observatio ...
* Lunar Orbiter 1
* Lunar Orbiter 2
* Lunar Orbiter 3
* Lunar Orbiter 4
Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and site selection. It was given a more general ...
* List of artificial objects on the Moon
References
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