 The light-colored streaks radiating from Copernicus and a few other large craters turned out to be chains and nets of small craters and debris blasted out in the primary impacts.In February 1965, Ranger 8 swept an oblique course over the south of Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Nubium, to crash in Mare Tranquillitatis about distant from where Apollo 11 would land 4½ years later.It garnered more than 7,000 images, covering a wider area and reinforcing the conclusions from Ranger 7.