Title from caption on object: "Closeup of Moon Surface”, March 24, 1965

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.1 × 18.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.32

Artists / Makers

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (artist) American, est. 1958

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

across bottom printed in image: (JPL13) PASADENA, Calif., March 24-- CLOSEUP OF MOON SURFACE-- This pic- / ture by Ranger 9 cameras was made 8.09 seconds before impact with the / spacecraft only 12.2 miles above the moon. Scientists at Jet Propul- / sion Lab in Pasadena said it shows an area 5.8 miles by 5.3 miles, with / North at the top. They added that the large crater toward left margin / is 1.6 miles across and is situated on a shallow rill [sic] running upward. / A second rill [sic] near the right margin is resolved as a string of / chain craters. (NASA Photo Via AP Wirephoto) (mw41700ho) 1965; on verso, by unknown hand, across top in blue pencil: Moon [circled] Ranger 9 photos; top center stamped in blue ink perpendicular: RRV 16641; center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary