LOT 94 First close-distance images of the lunar surface taken, Rang...
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Close up images of the lunar surface taken and transmitted to Earth seconds (last one 3.14 seconds) before the impact (2 prints, 5 views)Ranger 7, 31 July 1964Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), one with a NASA caption on the verso numbered 64-H-2140Footnotes:Until 1964 there were no close up photographs of the lunar surface, other than grainy images transmitted by Soviet probe Luna 3. Ranger 7 was the first probe to successfully deliver close-distance imagery of the Moon to Earth, allowing to disqualify the hypothesis about the Moon being covered in a layer of dt that could swallow up potential lander. The impact site was renamed to Mare Cognitum (The Sea that has Be Known) in honour to be the first area of the Moon to have been seen close up to
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