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What could one last picture tell us?
Follow a camera spacecraft toward the Moon. Explore its view, then look closer at what those pictures helped people learn.
Illustrative learning tools · not live spacecraft controlsLive Mission Replay · NASA Ranger 7
17-Minute Lunar Impact Dive
Drag the altitude scrubber or click Play to relive humanity's first close-up descent into the Moon.
First U.S. close-up photograph of the Moon. Centered near 13° S, 10° W showing 108-km crater Alphonsus.
Flight Telemetry
Altitude2,110 km
Velocity2.62 km/s
CountdownT-17:03.82
CameraCam A
Target: Mare Cognitum (-10.6340°, -20.6771°)
Step 1 of 8
2,110 km1,083 km74 km519 m
Speed:
Observation: First U.S. close-up photograph of the Moon. Centered near 13° S, 10° W showing 108-km crater Alphonsus.