Scope and content: the original database describes this as:
description: apollo 8, moon, langrenus. Latitude 9 degrees south,longitude 61 degrees east. Camera tilt mode: oblique. Direction: south. Sun angle: 34 degrees. Original film magazine was labeled a. Camera data: 70mm hasselblad; film type: kodak so-368,color,asa 64; other photographic coverage: lunar orbiter 4 (lo iv) hr 46. Flight date: december 21-27,1968. Subject terms: apollo 8 flight, lunar photography, craters
categories: lunar observations
original: film - 70mm ct
interior_exterior: exterior
ground_orbit: on-orbit
part of this photo was used in figure 2-17 (b) of the analysis of apollo 8 photography and visual observations (sp-201), which has the following caption:
crater interiors. (a) the crater humboldt (apollo 8 frame 2193-d); (b) the crater langrenus (apollo 8 frame 2615-a). The text of the analysis refers to the figure as follows:
color photographs of the crater langrenus (magazine a) show that the crater wall is terraced and that the terraces are partly covered by mass-wasted material which moved downslope along the walls (fig. 2-17(b)). Much of this material covered the northern portion of the crater floor. Date: 1967 – 1972. Collection: National Archives and Records Administration.
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