Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the Lunar Orbiter series, was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side.
It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data and was used to evaluate the Manned Space Flight Network tracking stations and Apollo Orbit Determination Program.
The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and on August 5, 1967 was injected into an elliptical near polar lunar orbit  with an inclination of 85 degrees and a period of 8 hours 30 minutes.
On August 7 the perilune was lowered to , and on August 9 the orbit was lowered to a , 3 hour 11 minute period.
The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 6 to 18, 1967, and readout occurred until August 27, 1967.
A total of 633 high resolution and 211 medium resolution frames at resolution down to  were acquired, bringing the cumulative photographic coverage by the five Lunar Orbiter craft to 99% of the Moon's surface.
Accurate data were acquired from all other experiments throughout the mission.
The spacecraft was tracked until it struck the lunar surface on command at 2.79 degrees S latitude, 83 degrees W longitude (selenographic coordinates) on January 31, 1968.
Instruments
Features on the near side of the Moon that were photographic targets included Petavius, Hyginus, Messier, Tycho, Copernicus, Gassendi, Vitello, Mons Gruithuisen Gamma, Prinz, Aristarchus, Vallis Schroteri, Marius Hills, Montes Apenninus, Rimae Plato, Sinus Aestuum, Hipparchus, Rimae Sulpicius Gallus, Rimae Calippus, Censorinus, Dionysius, and the future landing site of Apollo 11.
thumb|left|Spacecraft orbit and photographic coverage on the near side (left) and far side (right)
See also
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
Exploration of the Moon
Lunar Orbiter 1
Lunar Orbiter 2
Lunar Orbiter 3
Lunar Orbiter 4
List of artificial objects on the Moon
External links
DESTINATION MOON: A history of the Lunar Orbiter Program (html version) 1976
Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery - Mission 5 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute
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