Surface of the Moon
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View on museum website →Medium
stereoscopic glass transparency
Dimensions
plate (each): 2.4 × 2.7 cm (15/16 × 1 1/16 in.) mount: 4 × 10.1 × 0.3 cm (1 9/16 × 4 × 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Accession Number
2018.177.16.7
About the Artist
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), established by the United States government in 1958, has generated one of the most consequential bodies of photographic imagery in human history — images that have shaped scientific understanding, political culture, and visual art alike. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo lunar landings, the Space Shuttle era, ...