The first photograph of the lunar surface taken by a US spacecraft is 50 years old today.
On July 31, 1964, the NASA spacecraft Ranger 7 took this shot about 17 minutes before it crashed into the Moon's surface.
Ranger 7 was designed exclusively to take close-up images of the lunar surface and transmit them back to Earth.
It was the first of the Ranger series of spacecraft to be entirely successful, and transmitted 4,308 high-quality images during its last 17 minutes of flight.
In the first image are a number of large lunar craters. The three largest craters on the right-hand side of the image (from top to bottom) are Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel. The centre is dominated by a lunar "sea" called the Mare Nubium.
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