It's 6 television vidicon cameras: two full-scan cameras, and four partial scan cameras helped document the Moon's surface and gave NASA much information on whether a moon landing was possible. The impact crater of Ranger 8, approximately 13.5m wide, was later photographed by Lunar Orbiter 4. American scientists and officials saw it's footage and crater as a vindication of earlier theories about the moon's surface.
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| - It's 6 television vidicon cameras: two full-scan cameras, and four partial scan cameras helped document the Moon's surface and gave NASA much information on whether a moon landing was possible. The impact crater of Ranger 8, approximately 13.5m wide, was later photographed by Lunar Orbiter 4. American scientists and officials saw it's footage and crater as a vindication of earlier theories about the moon's surface.
- Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early and mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for future Apollo missions and were used for scientific study. During its 1965 mission, it transmitted 7,137 lunar surface photographs before it crashed into the Moon as planned. This was the second successful mission in the Ranger series, following Ranger 7. Ranger 8's design and purpose was very similar to Ranger 7. It also had six television vidicon cameras: two full-scan cameras, and four partial-scan cameras. Its sole purpose was to document the Moon's surface.
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| - It's 6 television vidicon cameras: two full-scan cameras, and four partial scan cameras helped document the Moon's surface and gave NASA much information on whether a moon landing was possible. The impact crater of Ranger 8, approximately 13.5m wide, was later photographed by Lunar Orbiter 4. American scientists and officials saw it's footage and crater as a vindication of earlier theories about the moon's surface.
- Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early and mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for future Apollo missions and were used for scientific study. During its 1965 mission, it transmitted 7,137 lunar surface photographs before it crashed into the Moon as planned. This was the second successful mission in the Ranger series, following Ranger 7. Ranger 8's design and purpose was very similar to Ranger 7. It also had six television vidicon cameras: two full-scan cameras, and four partial-scan cameras. Its sole purpose was to document the Moon's surface.
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