English: Oblique view of Mechnikov, on the far side of the moon, facing west. Dark diagonal lines are artifacts of reprocessing.
Date
created 2014, original image acquired 1967
Source
Reprocessed Lunar Orbiter 5 image rotated and cropped in Gimp. The original image is in the public domain because it is a work of the U.S. Government (NASA).
Immediate source: Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter 5, image 030, h3 [1]
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{{Information |Description = Oblique view of [[Mechnikov (crater)]], on the far side of the moon, facing west. Dark diagonal lines are artifacts of reprocessing. |Source = Reprocessed [[Lunar Orbiter 5]] image rotated and cropped in Gimp.<br>The origi...
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