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    Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad...
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    The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...
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    The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...
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    United States spacecraft to orbit the Moon was Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 14, 1966. The first orbit was an elliptical orbit, with an apolune of 1,008 nautical...
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    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...
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    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...
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    The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the...
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    Moon Lunar Orbiter 1 Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 5 "Lunar Orbiter 2". science.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved November 30, 2022. "Lunar Orbiter...
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    Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968) Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967) Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973)...
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    in great detail by Lunar Orbiter 5. From the 1950s through the 1990s, NASA aerodynamicist Dean Chapman and others advanced the lunar origin theory of tektites...
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    Loren Grush, The Verge April 27, 2018 "How ISRO modified a lunar orbiter into Mars orbiter Mangalyaan, India's "Moon Man" recalls". Zee News. 25 October...
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  • observation by Lunar Orbiter 5 in 1967. Dark-halo craters were once believed to be volcanic in origin rather than the result of impacts. The Orbiter image showed...
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    landers, five Lunar Orbiter surveillance probes,: 166  and nine Apollo missions, which landed the first humans on the Moon. For the Apollo lunar missions,...
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    incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a soft lander and a rover spacecraft. There have been three missions so far with a total of two orbiters, landers...
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    The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which is planned to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as...
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    Lunar Orbiter 5 spacecraft In August 1967. The Lunar Orbiter V_041 image is archived at the Lunar and Planetary Institute website. The Lunar Orbiter V...
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    northeast rim. High-resolution images of Hipparchus were obtained by Lunar Orbiter 5 in 1967. This feature is an ancient crater that has been subject to...
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    Moon landing (redirect from Lunar landing)
    2t stack consisting of lander, ascender, orbiter and returner was launched to lunar orbit by a Long March 5 rocket on 24 November. The lander-ascender...
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    2015-11-08. Lunar Orbiter 5 image (177) of southern Gassendi crater Lunar Orbiter 5 image (178) of central Gassendi crater Lunar Orbiter 5 image (179)...
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    are on the far side of the Moon, including Ranger 4, Lunar Orbiter 1, Lunar Orbiter 2, Lunar Orbiter 3, Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu-2 rover. Because of increasing...
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    space debris. Orbiter: after the samples were transported from the Ascender to the Orbiter, the Orbiter left lunar orbit and spent ~4.5 days flying back...
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    based on GRAIL Oblique Lunar Orbiter 5 image Another view from Lunar Orbiter 5 By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter...
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    The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that...
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    the Lunar Module remains at the original point of landing. According to Aldrin (with apparent confirmation from later Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos)...
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    2019. "Lunar Orbiter 5". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019. "In Depth | Lunar Orbiter 5". Solar...
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    (crater). Lunar Orbiter 5 images of Vitello, including high-resolution frames of interior "Downhill Creep or Flow?". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA....
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    material from both the Aristarchus plateau and the lunar mare. In November 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed over the crater, which spans almost 25...
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    The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially Danuri, is South Korea's first lunar orbiter. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control...
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    launched back into lunar orbit on 3 June 2024 at 23:38 UTC. The ascender docked with the Chang'e 6 service module (the orbiter) in lunar orbit at 06:48 UTC...
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  • Susan (25 March 2015). "Second ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit". The Sun-Earth Connection: Heliophysics. NASA. Chang, Kenneth (2019-12-06)...
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