Ranger 9 images of the Moon before impact on 24th March 1965. Ranger 9 was a space probe sent into space on the last of NASA's 'kamikaze' missions,which involved aiming probes at the Moon to take as many images as possible before crashing into it. Ranger 9 was the only mission to be equipped with the ability to convert its images into a form suitable for live broadcast on television screens. At 13:50 GMT,viewers watched a series of pictures showing the moon's landscape in detail for 15 minutes as Ranger 9 fell from a height of 2,363 kilometres into the crater Alphonsus. The series runs across from top left to bottom right,with the white circle marking the area of impact | |
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