Title from caption on object: "Ranger 9 Made This Photo While 775 Miles above the Moon...”

March 24, 1965

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 21.3 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 17.9 × 22.9 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.21.33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across top printed in image: PAS032415-3/24/65- PASADENA, CALIF., Ranger 9 [underlined in blue ink] made this photo while 775 miles above the moon / and 9 minutes 18 seconds before impact. Dimensions 147 miles by 123 miles. View with shadows / to left. North is at top. Shows slightly more than half of three major craters, Ptolemaeus at / top without central peak Alphonsus on left with rille system and central peak which rises / 3300 ft. above floor and Albategnius with 4500 ft. central peak. UPI TELEPHOTO rmp.; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in black ink perpendicular: A94404; upper center stamped in purple ink perpendicular: REFERENCE / MAR 24'65 / N.E.A.; upper right printed in black ink on applied label: zah 1035; lower left UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular

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