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Desirable original vintage semi-glossy 13 x 13 silver gelatin photograph of the moon's surface taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on November 23, 1966, showing a wide-angle oblique view of the Crater Copernicus and surrounding territories. Affixed to a 16 x 18 mount, with a detailed affixed caption on the reverse, in part: "Photo No. 66-H-1469: This oblique view of the moon recorded by Lunar Orbiter II shows the crater Copernicus just below the horizon. The wide angle lens photograph was taken at 7:05 p.m. EST on November 23, with the spacecraft cameras tilted 17° from the horizontal. Copernicus, 60 miles across and two miles deep, was formed by the impact of a giant meteorite. The rim of the crater is surrounded by angular blocks, up to 150 feet across, ejected by the impact. Steep cliffs, 1,000 feet high, are land slide scarps, down which masses of rubble have slid. Strings of gentle craters in the foreground were formed by impact of fragments ejected from the large crater…Lunar Orbiter was 28.4 miles above the surface and about 150 miles due south of the center of Copernicus when the picture was taken. This photograph was transmitted from the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, California on November 28." Also annotated on the reverse in felt tip, "Elle, Kodak." In very good to fine condition, with a light square central block of toning to the image, and some edgewear to the mount.
