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29/10/1966 Moon crash

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America’s First Lunar Surveyor: 50 Years Later

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Lunar Orbiter, Cape Kennedy (1966)

NASA deliberately crashed its probe Lunar Orbiter 1 into the Moon surface. The probe orbited Moon for nearly seventy eight days. It took 42 high-resolution and 187 medium-resolution photos. It covered five million square kilometres (13 percent) of the Moon's surface. It also measured radiation intensity and micrometeoroid impacts.
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