The slight increase in elevation running north-south through the impact zone (the Ranger 8 spacecraft arrived from the west by southwest - from the left side of these fields of view) is genuine. The Ranger 8 impact at 1 meter per pixel resolution, picked out from the background (2.635°N, 24.784☎) of the LROC NAC/WAC global mosaic available using the LROC QuickMap. The resolution above appears to be between 1.5 and 2 meters per pixel. Because the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has previously surveyed and identified the location of the Ranger 8 impact with the Narrow Angle Camera (see below), and because such a large version of the Lunar Orbiter II medium resolution photograph was made available by LOIRP on the NLSI servers, it took little work to separate out the impact rays from the general washout of the terrain. It helps to know precisely where to look. Newly retrieved from original tapes by the Lunar Orbiter Image Restoration Project ( LOIRP) and released J. One year and 9 months earlier, almost to the hour, on February 20, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft, performing as it was designed, impacted this part of Mare Tranquillitatis at the spot indicated by the blue arrow. Thumbnail of newly retrieved medium resolution frame 2069-M, a roughly 27 km-wide field of view northwest of the eventual landing site of Apollo 11, captured by Lunar Orbiter II, November 20, 1966.
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