Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- MARE
- Ranger 7 struck a broad lunar plain called Mare Cognitum, Latin for 'the known sea', a name chosen to honor the mission's success.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- IMPACT
- Ranger 7 was never meant to land gently; its final act was a deliberate impact, transmitting images all the way down to the Moon's surface.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CAMERA
- The spacecraft carried six television cameras arranged to capture both wide-angle and close-up views, returning a record of detail no Earth-based telescope could match.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SIGNALS
- The photographs were transmitted as radio signals across roughly 240,000 miles of space before reaching NASA's ground stations on July 31, 1964.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Ranger 7 Sends Home the Moon's First Close-Up: a free large-print word search
Ranger 7 Moon photos word search, free and large-print, honoring July 31, 1964, when humanity first glimpsed the lunar surface up close.
About Ranger 7 Sends Home the Moon's First Close-Up
On July 31, 1964, NASA's Ranger 7 spacecraft did something no machine had ever done: it sent back more than 4,000 sharp, close-up photographs of the Moon's surface before making its planned impact in a smooth lava plain called Mare Cognitum. The images arrived crisp and detailed, craters, dust, and ancient rock laid bare for the first time, giving scientists a real surface to study rather than a blurred disk glimpsed through a telescope. It was a quiet but pivotal moment, proof that America could reach the Moon and look it in the eye.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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