
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2034_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 19 November 1966 at 06:22 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2034_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 19 November 1966 at 06:22 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2032_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 18 November 1966 at 22:23 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2032_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 18 November 1966 at 22:23 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2015_H3, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 18 November 1966 at 15:25 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2015_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 18 November 1966 at 15:25 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2090_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 20 November 1966 at 19:38 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
Scooping the Soviets, Paul Spudis
“The team at Jodrell Bank assumed that the mission was over, surmising that Luna 9 probably hit the Moon too hard or was designed as a crash lander. Then to their astonishment, the probe began transmitting radio signals and the observatory recorded them, uncertain as to their meaning. Lovell thought – suppose these signals were simply an ordinary telefax communication? If these transmissions were pictures of the lunar surface, perhaps the signals the observatory recorded could be read by a commercial facsimile machine. But Jodrell Bank Observatory had no such machine; the observatory was a scientific laboratory, which in those days displayed its received radio signals in the form of line graphs made by paper strip recorders.”
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2113_H3, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 16:49 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2113_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 16:49 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2113_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 16:49 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 2090_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 16:49 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
This newly retrieved medium resolution image, frame 2085_M, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 20 November 1966 at 19:37 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]