NASA Photo ID: AS08-12-2192        File Name: 10074972.jpg
Film Type: 70mm BW                 Date Taken: 12/24/68
Title: View of lunar surface taken from Apollo 8 spacecraft
Description:
View of the lunar surface taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking 
southward from high altitude across the Southern Sea. The bright-rayed
crater  near the horizon is located near 130 degrees east longitude and 70
degrees  south latitude. The dark floored crater near the middle of the
right side of  the photograph is about 70 kilometers (45 statute miles) in
diameter. Both  features are beyond the eastern limb of the moon as viewed
from earth;  neither has a name.               
Subject terms:
APOLLO 8                                
APOLLO PROJECT                          
LUNAR EXPLORATION                       
LUNAR SOIL                              
LUNAR SURFACE                           
MOON                                    
ONBOARD ACTIVITIES                      
PHOTOGRAPHY                             

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