Word: alphonsus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of pictures that Ranger sent home from its final dive began with a view of the Crater Alphonsus and its neighbors, a picture that just about matched the best that have been taken by the biggest telescopes on earth. Then, as the spacecraft plunged toward its impact point, the lunar landscape expanded. Slowly at first, then faster and faster, the field of view narrowed (see cuts), and details emerged that had never before been glimpsed by human eyes...
...great ring of Alphonsus, 75 miles in diameter, grew immensely. A new picture appeared every five seconds; the famous rills (cracks visible to astronomers on earth) stood out more plainly than ever. New rills appeared, some of them with little craters strung along them like beads. Between them, the floor of Alphonsus, which looks smooth from the distant earth, turned out to be spotted with craters, some single, others in lines, a few showing dark halos...
...regard with disapproving coolness Father Dustin's jazz success, he does not mind. All the income from his banjo-concert fees and record royalties-goes to the order, for its missions in Thailand and Brazil. Furthermore, Detroit's musical priest thinks he has an excellent precedent: St. Alphonsus Ligouri, founder of the Redemptorist Order (in 1732) was a cool man on the harpsichord...