Name: Moonscapes [Large Formats]: Crater Cleomedes, northern Sea of Crises; Craters Lavoisier and Von Braun, May 1967
Brand: Lunar Orbiter IV
Price: 700.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

172 a
Taken by a Kodak camera aboard the Lunar Orbiter IV spacecraft

Western rim of the Ocean of Storms, Craters Lavoisier and Von Braun

Lunar Orbiter IV, May 1967

Large-format vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 56 x 41.5cm, numbered “IV-189H2 NASA LRC” (NASA Langley) in black on the recto lower margin

172 b
Taken by a Kodak camera aboard the Lunar Orbiter IV spacecraft

The northern Sea of Crises and Crater Cleomedes

Lunar Orbiter IV, May 1967

Large-format vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 39 x 43.5cm, numbered “IV-191H3 NASA LRC” (NASA Langley) in black on the recto upper margin
56 x 41.5cm (22 x 16¹⁄₄in)

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Lot Essay

172 a
This high resolution photograph (full view of frame IV-189H2) was taken with the 610mm telephoto lens from an altitude of 2877 km. The 70-km Crater Lavoisier, named after the french chemist Antoine Lavoisier, is the largest crater at the bottom of picture. The 60-km Crater Von Braun, named after the rocket pioneer Wernher Von Braun, lies along the western edge of the Ocean of Storms whose mare surface is visible to the right, to the northeast of Lavoisier. Latitude 41.71° N, longitude 79.99° W.

172 b
This high resolution photograph (partial view of frame IV-191H3) was taken from an altitude of 5,503 km with the 610mm telephoto lens, showing the 126-km Crater Cleomedes (top of picture, named after the greek astronomer Cleomedes), located on the northern shore of the Sea of Crises which is 556 km in diameter, with notably the 23-km Crater Picard (bottom center left) visible on the otherwise smooth mare surface.