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. 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. Image:Lunar_Orbiter_V_image_of_earth.jpg|Image of the Earth taken by
Lunar Orbiter 5, enhanced by
LOIRP Image:Lunar Orbiter 5 - FRAME 5091-M - DPLA - 23d0944947b5ada4a859b87e8dbc1966.jpg|
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus on August 13, 1967 () Image:Lunar Orbiter 5 - FRAME 5179-H1 - DPLA - ab9cbc6ca4faed735b557a9d2a6ce14a.jpg|Southern rim of
Gassendi A crater on August 17, 1967 Image:Lunar Orbiter 5 - FRAME 5198-H3 - DPLA - 6a113a5cf26e003e5423f9d1bd785b6f.jpg|Rim of
Aristarchus crater on August 18, 1967 () ==See also==