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a08_v_c_o_AKP (AS8-14-2451)

Apollo 8: Moon, far side, Target of Opportunity (T/O) 40, Fractured mare dome and other features, Tsiolkovsky
Latitude: 21° South, Longitude: 128° East
Camera Tilt Mode: High Oblique
Direction: South
Sun Angle: 69°

Original Film Magazine was labeled B.
Camera Data: 70mm Hasselblad
Lens: 250mm
Film Type: Kodak SO-368 Color, ASA 64
Other Photographic Coverage: Lunar Orbiter 1 (LO I) S-9. Flight Date: December 21-27,1968

Above at/from (cleaned up):

nara.getarchive.net/media/as08-14-2451-apollo-8-apollo-8-...

My favorite lunar crater. Interestingly, note also the two dark (lower albedo) features to the upper left, on the floor of Waterman Crater, they look like mini-mares.

Way cool...find Tsiolkovsky Crater and the corresponding (2451) blue outlined field of view of this photograph:

www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/apolloindex/apollo8...
Credit: the wonderful LPI website

Finally, from NASA SP-201, “ANALYSIS OF APOLLO 8 PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL OBSERVATIONS”:

“The mare-like materials of the far-side crater Tsiolkovsky were the darkest appearing materials we observed. Our flightpath took us about 200 n. mi. north of Tsiolkovsky, and our visibility to the south was limited by window fogging; however, this mare did appear to be very smooth, again with the exception of the ubiquitous small craters. Through the monocular telescope, and then barely with the unaided eye, we were able to discern several large boulders on this surface next to the base of the central peak. To be observable from over 200 n. mi., these boulders must be several hundred meters in diameter. One of the boulders appeared to have a track leading away from it, indicating it had rolled off the central peak. Other than these boulders in Tsiolkovsky, no boulders were observed on mare materials, even during use of the spacecraft sextant for landmark tracking.”

Above at/from:

ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700005062/downloads/1970000...

Taken on: April 4, 2024

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