| NASA Lunar surface taken by Lunar Orbiter 1967 Gelatin silver print, on Kodak paper 61 x 44,4 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction 104, 3 December 2014, 19th - 21st Century Photography, Lot: 4228, NASA-LRC and III-112H3 LL/56124 Lunar Orbiter 3 transmitted 182 images to Earth, covering 15,5 million square kilometers of the Moon's near side and 650,000 square kilometers of the far side. The photographs from Lunar Orbiters 1, 2, and 3 allowed NASA scientists to select eight preliminary landing sites for Apollo, including the sites where Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 would ultimately land.
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