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Given the recent activity in Lunar Exploration, & given an idea by another thread,<br />thought now would be a good time to look at previous unmanned Lunar Exploration.<br /><br />Some of the detail in the Lunar Orbiter 5 images of Copernicus show detail to only <br />ONE METRE per pixel (bear in mind SELENE 8 metres & Chang'e 1 120 metres).<br /><br />Lunar Orbiter 5 Copernicus Crater Floor.<br /><br />Lunar Orbiter 5 Copernicus Crater Floor 2.<br /><br />Lunar Orbiter 5 Copernicus Crater Floor 3.<br /><br />Crater Copernicus small frozen lava lake on eastern wall Lunar Orbiter 5.<br /><br />Detail of North East Copernicus Crater wall Lunar Orbiter 5.<br /><br />Detail of Eastern Copernicus Crater wall Lunar Orbiter 5.<br /><br />Lunar Orbiter 5 Aristarchus boulders. <br /><br />Lunar Orbiter 5 Aristarchus floor.<br /><br />Lunar Orbiter 5 Aristarchus south wall.<br /><br />Lunar Farside high reso Latitude: 41.85°Longitude: 109.39°Lunar Orbiter 5.<br /><br />http://www.lpi</safety_wrapper <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>