sur01_v_bw_o_n (66-H-807)
“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor I photograph of the moon’s surface was transmitted to earth and received at NASA’s contracted Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Narrow-angle photograph of lunar horizon southwest of the Surveyor spacecraft. Line of large rounded blocks in foreground mark the rim of a large, ancient crater several hundreds of meters in diameter. The far rim of the crater can be seen on the horizon.”
Amazing imagery by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the landing site. If the image is presented north/top, south/bottom, which I’d expect, the large crater referenced above is obvious and would appear to be to the southeast, not southwest of the spacecraft. In the interactive full-resolution image, it’s located nearly dead-center, 1/3 the width of the image in from the right:
Credit: LROC/Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration website
Also:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_...
sur01_v_bw_o_n (66-H-807)
“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor I photograph of the moon’s surface was transmitted to earth and received at NASA’s contracted Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Narrow-angle photograph of lunar horizon southwest of the Surveyor spacecraft. Line of large rounded blocks in foreground mark the rim of a large, ancient crater several hundreds of meters in diameter. The far rim of the crater can be seen on the horizon.”
Amazing imagery by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the landing site. If the image is presented north/top, south/bottom, which I’d expect, the large crater referenced above is obvious and would appear to be to the southeast, not southwest of the spacecraft. In the interactive full-resolution image, it’s located nearly dead-center, 1/3 the width of the image in from the right:
Credit: LROC/Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration website
Also:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_...