frontier: The Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter IV, May 1967.
At centre, three overlapping craters: Anaxagoras, Goldschmidt, and Barrow at 73°N 3°W. Directly above them, on the edge of darkness, the north pole. Below them, Plato Crater (dark and circular) on the edge of the Mare Imbrium.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC, c/o LPI.
tokyo firestorm: Surface of the Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter I, August 1966.
Somewhere around Curie Crater (20°S 90°E) at the western edge of the lunar farside. Detail of an image looking back toward Earth over the limb of the Moon.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC, c/o LPI.
republic: Surface of the Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter IV, May 1967.
Centred on 54°N 14°W. The dark expanse across the upper-left half of the image is a bay in the Mare Frigoris. The large crater at bottom (just right of center) is Plato A. Half of Plato B can be seen at bottom left, and a tiny section of the rim of Plato Crater itself at bottom right.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC, c/o LPI.
oh, those russians: Surface of the Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 1, August 1966.
Around 5°S 140°E, farside, the region bracketed by craters Mendeleev, Tsiolkovskiy, and Gagarin.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC.
not because they are easy: Deep space, photographed from lunar orbit by Lunar Orbiter 1, August 1966.
Discussion of the unique texture of LO images, much in evidence here, can be found with the Lunar Orbiter tag.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC.
all the world’s a stage: Looking across Copernicus Crater, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 2, November 1966.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC, c/o LPI.
![cloak: The surface of the Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 1, August 1966.
From 1°N 84°E, on the western side of the Mare Smythii (named for William Henry Smyth, 19th century British astronomer).
[High resolution section 1 of plate 1005.]
Image credit: NASA/LaRC.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8e3wiTeEc1qlyoivo1_500.jpg)
cloak: The surface of the Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 1, August 1966.
From 1°N 84°E, on the western side of the Mare Smythii (named for William Henry Smyth, 19th century British astronomer).
[High resolution section 1 of plate 1005.]
Image credit: NASA/LaRC.
hush: The Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter IV, May 1967.
I believe the large crater is the Mare Orientale on the south lunar farside (20°S, 265° E).
Image credit: NASA/LaRC.
jitters: Surface of the Moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 1, mid-August 1966.
Unidentified lunar hillock north of Lubbock Crater on the eastern shore of the Mare Fecunditatis (-1°S, 42°E). The sketchy 3D-ish motion is because LO images were processed in horizontal strips that don’t quite match up.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC. Animation: Me.
Detail: Top left corner of an image of the surface of the moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter V, August 1967.
Think this is a recent scan of a photo transparency of some kind made from the Orbiter’s data transmission. Notice reversed numbers along the left margin that seem to correlate with horizontal slices of the image.
Image credit: NASA/LaRC.
