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The Ranger project was designed to send a spacecraft to the moon and take a series of photographs of the lunar surface as the spacecraft descended toward impact. The project was fraught with failures, but it was finally successful, and high-quality pictures were transmitted to earth.
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Lund, T. (2018). The Ranger Lunar Photography Mission. In: Early Exploration of the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02071-2_2
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