Title:

Floor of Copernicus crater

Creator:

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Date:

30 November 1966

Description:

CAPTION: The floor of Copernicus in the area south of the crater is shown in fine detail in this photograph taken by Lunar Orbiter 2's telephoto lens at 7:05 p.m. EST, November 23. Copernicus, 60 miles in diameter and two miles deep, dominates the upper left quadrant of the Moon as seen from Earth. Distance from crater Fauth at base of photo to near rim of Copernicus is 33 miles. Hummocky terrain in foreground was formed by ejection of material from Copernicus after impact by a giant meteorite. Mountains rising from the flat floor of the crater are about 1,000 feet high with slopes up to 30 degrees and are covered with loose blocks and rubble. Triangular shaped flat area in foreground on left margin is a fault trough filled by young volcanic rocks. From the horizon to the base of the photograph is about 180 miles. Crater Fauth is about 13 miles across and 4,500 feet deep. Lunar Orbiter was 28.4 miles above the the surface and about 150 miles due south of the center of Copernicus when the picture was taken. This photograph was transmitted from the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network station at Goldstone, Calif., on Nonvember 28. Lunar Orbiter is a National Aeronuatics and Space Administration Project managed by the Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.

Location:

Box: 68. Folder: 45

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Homer E. Newell, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Joshua Lederberg, 1967
First view of Earth taken from the Moon, 1966

Legacy ID:

BBGDAI

NLM ID:

101584906X15658

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X15658

Lederberg Grouping:

NONE. No Epoch.