Title from caption on object: "Surveyor's Cameras Returned Detailed Photos”

June 2, 1966

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.7 × 17.4 cm (9 5/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.21.26

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge printed in image: (JPL14) PASADENA, Calif., June 2-- SURVEYOR'S CAMERAS RETURNED DETAILED / PHOTOS-- This picture, showing a section of the Surveyor spacecraft in / remarkable detail, is one of many transmitted back to earth today by / the craft after landing on the moon. It was transmitted to earth as / 600 separate lines of picture, which together make the complete / photograph. This version was copied from a monitor screen at Jet Pro- / pulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. (AP Wirephoto) (jfm50414stf) 1966; on verso, top center stamped in blue ink perpendicular: RRV 13205; center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink

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