DescriptionNASA - NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 400 MARYLAND AVENUE SW, WASHINGTON, D. C 20546 FOR RELEASE: Immediately PHOTO NO.: 64-Ranger B-27 (Frame 0359) THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES COPY AND LAYOUT MUST BE SUBMITTED TO NASA FOR APPROVAL PRIOR TO RELEASE.IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES COPY AND LAYOUT MUST EE SUBMITTED TO NASA FOR APPROVAL PRIOR TO RELEASE Photograph taken by Ranger VII spacecraft prior to its impact on the Moon at 6:25 a.m. PDT July 31. Viewed with the clock in the upper left hand corner, North is at the top of the photograph. The photograph was taken by the F-a camera with a 25mm, f/1 lens from an altitude of about 85 miles. The picture covers an area 48 miles on a side and shows craters as small as 500 feet in diameter. The central area shows a cluster of secondary draters in part of an outlying ray of the crater Copernicus. This cluster is shown with a greater resolution in the picture marked 0373. The largest craters shown, with permanent shadows, are primary craters of approximately conical shape.
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