{"id":525,"date":"2013-02-13T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2013\/02\/13\/messier_a_and_b_as_seen_by_lunar_orbiter_5\/"},"modified":"2013-02-13T19:47:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:47:18","slug":"messier_a_and_b_as_seen_by_lunar_orbiter_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Messier A and B As Seen by Lunar Orbiter 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Messier_(crater)\">Wikipedia<\/a>: Messier is a relatively young lunar impact crater located on the Mare Fecunditatis. The crater has a discernible oblong shape that is not caused by foreshortening. The longer dimension is oriented in an east-west direction. Just to the west lies Messier A, a similar-sized crater with an oblong, doublet form. The longer dimension of this crater is oriented north-south, at right angles to Messier. This crater also has a curved bulge extending to the west. Messier A and B were photographed at high resolution by NASA&#8217;s Lunar Orbiter V spacecraft In August of 1967. The oblique angle view is the best available view of the craters.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/5041_H3.med.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/div>\n<p>This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 5041_H3, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 August 1967  at 16:11 GMT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/resources\/lunarorbiter\/frame\/?5041\">LPI reference<\/a>. Images: [<a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/loirp\/5041_H3.jpg\">large<\/a> at LOIRP] [<a href=\"http:\/\/lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov\/files\/LOIRP\/5041_H3.tif\">Very Large<\/a> at NASA NLSI] <em>Note: the large line arcing across this image is a photographic processing artifact that occurred during automated film processing in lunar orbit.<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/5041_H2.med.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/div>\n<p>This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 5041_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 August 1967  at 16:11 GMT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/resources\/lunarorbiter\/frame\/?5041\">LPI reference<\/a>. Images: [<a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/loirp\/5041_H2.jpg\">large<\/a> at LOIRP] [<a href=\"http:\/\/lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov\/files\/LOIRP\/5041_H2.tif\">Very Large<\/a> at NASA NLSI]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/5041_H1.med.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/div>\n<p>This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 5041_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 August 1967  at 16:11 GMT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/resources\/lunarorbiter\/frame\/?5041\">LPI reference<\/a>. Images: [<a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/loirp\/5041_H1.jpg\">large<\/a> at LOIRP] [<a href=\"http:\/\/lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov\/files\/LOIRP\/5041_H1.tif\">Very Large<\/a> at NASA NLSI]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia: Messier is a relatively young lunar impact crater located on the Mare Fecunditatis. The crater has a discernible oblong shape that is not caused by foreshortening. The longer dimension is oriented in an east-west direction. Just to the west lies Messier A, a similar-sized crater with an oblong, doublet form. The longer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Messier A and B As Seen by Lunar Orbiter 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lunar-orbiter-5-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}