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APOLLO_12_AS_12-53-7917.jpgAS 12-53-7917 - Just like "2001"...59 visiteUn vero peccato che, almeno sino ad oggi (Novembre 2006), le pagine NASA dedicate alle Missioni Apollo (Apollo Lunar Surface Journal) non dedichino, nella Sezione Apollo 12, alcuno spazio alle immagini contenute nel "film-magazine n. 53" (verificate Voi stessi: i magazines pubblicati sono solo quelli andanti da 46 a 52 più il magazine 57. Una dimenticanza della NASA? O forse una nostra svista?
Se lo scoprite, fatecelo sapere! Noi, in ogni caso, qualche frame proveniente dal rullino n. 55 lo abbiamo trovato e Ve lo proponiamo con piacere: non c'è nulla di strano o di anomalo. Solo delle bellissime immagini...
Nov 07, 2006
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APOLLO_12_AS_12-55-8221.jpgAS 12-55-8221 - On the way to the Moon...58 visite...A proposito: anche il rullino 55 non c'è nella Collezione NASA dedicata all'Apollo 12 e pubblicata nell'Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, ma i frames in questione (anche se solo nelle loro versioni ultracompresse - e quindi qualitativamente scarse e - sovente - molto ingannevoli...) li potrete comunque trovare nell'Apollo Image Atlas custodito e gestito dal Lunar and Planetary Institute.Nov 07, 2006
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APOLLO 12 AS 12-50-7438-1.jpgAS 12-50-7438 - Shadowland... (HR)71 visitenessun commentoOtt 19, 2006
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APOLLO 12 AS 12-46-6746 HR.jpgAS 12-46-6746 - Surveyor Crater (HR)241 visiteFrame da guardare in correlazione al detail mgnf del Dr Gianluigi Barca, pubblicato nella Sez. "Readers Show and Tell".
Mag 17, 2006
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ZG-APOLLO12-lpi_trvrsmap.jpgWalking on the Moon, with Conrad and Bean111 visiteThis map is figure 10.15 from the Lunar Sourcebook, G.H. Heiken, D.T. Vaniman and B.M. French.
The traverses shown on this map were deduced from Hasselblad pictures taken by the crew and from their commentary.
NASA photo S69-59538 is another representation of the traverse.Gen 08, 2006
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ZD-Surveyor Crater.jpgSurveyor Crater95 visite"I See the Surveyor!"
During the first few hours after landing, while he and Bean had a quick meal and began preparations for the first of two 4-hour EVAs, Conrad spent more than a little time trying to figure out just where he'd landed. It was a bit of a puzzle. The landmarks which had been so obvious during the approach weren't at all obvious from the ground. Looking west out the window, he and Bean saw an undulating and otherwise featureless plain. Among other things, there was no obvious sign of the Snowman's Head. Head Crater is about two hundred meters in diameter and should have been right in front of them. However, as they became accustomed to the subtleties of the view, they began to realize that there was, in fact, a big crater practically staring them in the face. They hadn't recognized it because they were back a bit from the east rim and were looking directly away from the early morning sun. There was a shadow in the bottom of Head Crater, but it was hidden by the near rim. There was also a lack of color variation in the scene and that, too, made the crater hard to see. However, once they realized that there was a big crater in front of them, they quickly decided that it had to be the Snowman's Head. If so, then Surveyor Crater had to be right behind them. Conrad jammed himself forward against his window as tightly as he could, probably wishing he had a rear window or at least a rear-facing mirror, and tried to peer as far around the back as possible. He was rewarded with a glimpse of the telltale slope of another large crater.
Fittingly, it was Dick Gordon, traveling overhead in the Command Module Yankee Clipper, who nailed down the landing coordinates. As he made his second post-landing pass, he put his eye to the sextant in hopes of getting a glimpse of the LM, a feat that Collins had never managed. Of course, Gordon had a real advantage in that he knew where Intrepid was supposed to be. As he picked up the Snowman, it wasn't long until he spotted the LM's fifty-meter shadow.
"I have him," he said. "He's on the Surveyor Crater; he's about a fourth of a Surveyor Crater diameter to the northwest...I'll tell you, he's the only thing that casts a shadow down there."
In seconds, he was directly overhead. "The Intrepid is just on the left shoulder of the Snowman. He is looking at me. He is about a third of the way from the Surveyor Crater to the (Snowman's) Head."
Then he really got excited. "I see the Surveyor! I see the Surveyor! Hey! That's almost as good as being there."
Now there was no doubt. Not only had Gordon seen the LM but he'd seen the Surveyor itself. Conrad and Bean had landed right on target and, thanks to Ewen Whitaker, they'd even been sent to the right crater! This was going to be fun.
Gen 08, 2006
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APOLLO 12 AS 12-46-6768 HR.jpgAS 12-46-6768 - The Sun over Surveyor Crater (HR)113 visiteNessun commentoGen 08, 2006
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APOLLO 12 AS 12-46-6763 HR.jpgAS 12-46-6763 - The Sun over Surveyor Crater (HR)116 visiteNessun commentoGen 08, 2006
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APOLLO 12 AS 12-46-6762 HR.jpgAS 12-46-6762 - The Sun over Surveyor Crater (HR)116 visitenessun commentoGen 08, 2006
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ZC-APOLLO 12 - Head Crater.jpgHead Crater120 visitenessun commentoGen 08, 2006
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ZB-APOLLO 12 - Triple Crater.jpgTriple Crater105 visitenessun commentoGen 08, 2006
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APOLLO 12 AS 12-46-6793 HR-1.jpgAS 12-46-6793 - The "Larger Mound" (HR)110 visiteOriginal caption:"At about 116:55:53 MT, Pete Conrad took this down-Sun of the larger of the two mounds near the ALSEP deployment site.
We can see in Pete's shadow that he is using a UHT to carry the SIDE subpallet".Gen 06, 2006
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