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...distance of some 10,500 miles. During its expected three-month working life -longer if the power supply holds out-Mariner will radio back more than 5,000 television pictures, mapping at least 70% of the planetary surface. In addition, its two cameras will take the first relatively closeup pictures of the two little Martian moons, Deimos and Phobos. But photography will only be part of the mission's objective, the most sophisticated in the history of planetary exploration...
Staggers' investigators have closely questioned some CBS employees about past transgressions on the news. Among the sequences that have drawn the investigators' attention are shots of an Idaho forest blaze that reports say were enhanced by setting afire trees in the foreground. Another: an allegedly staged closeup in Viet Nam where a Marine touched a lighter to a thatched roof for added drama in an already dramatic story on the burning of a village...
...from a quarter of a million miles away. With a push of the appropriate button, he could swing it across the mountain-ringed horizon, raise it up to focus on a peak or lower it to peer down Hadley Rille. He could zoom in on the astronauts for a closeup or even adjust the lens opening to compensate for the moon's harsh lighting conditions...
...slowly swept in a full circle around the horizon, enabling the scientists in Mission Control's science support room to take a series of overlapping Polaroid snapshots off their TV monitor, quickly study them for any oddity and then request Fendell to zoom in on it. Such a closeup was called a "NATO," or narrow-angle target of opportunity. While the scientists pored over their pictures, Fendell adroitly mixed his WAPs and NATOs with numerous shots of the moon walkers...
...Force crew, Alfred M. Worden, 39, who also will be making his first space venture, has been given an extra dose of scientific indoctrination. While waiting for his buddies to rejoin him aboard the orbiting command ship Endeavour, he will conduct a host of experiments, including closeup photography of the moon with a specially designed stereo camera. He will also take a daring space walk on the trip home...