Name: Orbital telephoto panorama [Large Format] over lunar valleys on the southwest limb of the Moon, May 1967
Brand: Lunar Orbiter IV
Price: 1200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Taken by a Kodak camera aboard the Lunar Orbiter IV spacecraft

Three large-format vintage gelatin silver prints on glossy fiber-based paper, high resolution adjoining frames, numbered “IV-186H1, H2, H3 NASA-LRC” (NASA Langley) in black on the recto lower margins, each 44 x 57cm and stamped “Institute of Physics and Geoplanetary Physics University of California Los Angeles. California 90024” on the verso
44 x 57cm (17¹⁄₄ x 22¹⁄₂in)

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This telephoto panorama (Lunar Orbiter frame IV-186 H constituted of three parts H1, H2 and H3) was taken (simultaneously with medium resolution photograph IV-186M) over Vallis Bouvard and Baade on the lunar nearside with the 610mm telephoto lens from an altitude of 3005km. Latitude: 42.27° S, longitude 81.34° W.

Vallis Bouvard, named after the french astronomer Alexis Bouvard, is a 284-km-long valley on the Moon, beginning at the southern rim of the 48-km Crater Shaler (just to the northwest (left) of this crater is the slightly smaller 40-km Crater Wright at the center of the left part of the panorama), and winds its way to the south-southeast towards the 55-km Crater Baade (center of the panorama), named after the German astronomer Walter Baade.
The area to the east (top) of this crater forms the junction between Vallis Bouvard to the north and the narrower, 203-km-long Vallis Baade to the south-southeast. Both valleys radiate away from the enormous Eastern Sea impact basin (whose southern edge is partially visible at the extreme left) to the north.
The low Sun elevation near the terminator emphasizes the details of the relief.