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| | =40 Years Ago Today= | | =40 Years Ago Today= |
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| | <p>[[File:LOEARTH-LPOD.jpg|LOEARTH-LPOD.jpg]]<br /> | | <p>[[File:LOEARTH-LPOD.jpg|LOEARTH-LPOD.jpg]]<br /> |
| | <em>image by Lunar Orbiter I and[http://www.donaldedavis.com/2003NEW/NEWSTUFF/DDMOON.html Don Davis]</em></p> | | <em>image by Lunar Orbiter I and[http://www.donaldedavis.com/2003NEW/NEWSTUFF/DDMOON.html Don Davis]</em></p> |
| − | <p>Where were you on August 23, 1966? The first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon, Lunar Orbiter I, was just over the eastern limb and snapped this picture looking across the lunar surface to Earth. This was the first image of Earth taken from near the Moon. Although it is hard to recognize surface features on the Earth, the terminator reportedly passes through Turkey. Because of the oblique view and high Sun conditions it is also difficult to recognize features on the the lunar surface, but the area is near the crater Pasteur at 105°E, 12°S. Using <i>[http://www.lpod.org/?page_id=102 The Clementine Atlas]</i>, I see that Meitner is the crater near right foreground of this truncated view, and Pasteur is the ill-defined larger crater between Meitner and the limb. To answer my question, on August 23, 1966 I was about to leave Tucson and start training to become a [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/Chuckstuff/Africa.htm Peace Corps volunteer] in Kenya. </p> | + | <!-- Removed reference to store page 2 --> |
| | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> | | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> |
| | <p><strong>Technical Details:</strong><br /> | | <p><strong>Technical Details:</strong><br /> |
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| | Today’s LPOD is only part of the complete [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/lo1_h102_123.html Lunar Orbiter image] | | Today’s LPOD is only part of the complete [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/lo1_h102_123.html Lunar Orbiter image] |
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| − | <p align="center"><em>You can support LPOD when you buy ANY book from Amazon thru </em><em>[http://www.lpod.org/?page_id=102 LPOD!]</em></p> | + | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[August 22, 2006|Postcard from the Edge]] </p> |
| | + | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[August 24, 2006|A Swell Place for Rilles]] </p> |
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