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...unsuccessful attempts were made to link up the command ship and the lunar lander. Unless this can be accomplished, the landing will not be possible...
...earth. As a result the crust there would have been slightly squeezed and become thinner than that on the far side. Indeed, such an uneven distribution of crust was offered by University of Chicago Mineralogist Joseph Smith to explain the paucity of maria on the far side. These great lunar seas are believed to be vast upwellings of lava, perhaps from volcanic eruptions set off by the moon's collision with large asteroids. On the far side, where the crust is thicker, such impacts would have been less likely to penetrate the moon's hard crust and release...
...first Russian scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers; some will try to pick up samples from the geologically tantalizing highlands, probably the moon...
...Lunar Gardening. The moon's "topsoil" also produced some surprises. Examining a 16-in.-long lunar core obtained by the astronauts when they sank a tube into the surface of the moon, lunar scientists found ten distinctly different layers of material. This indicates that the churning and pulverizing effect -the so-called gardening of the lunar surface attributed to bombardment by smaller meteorites-is occurring in at least some places at a much slower rate than had been supposed, thereby allowing the various layers to accumulate undisturbed for long periods of time. Cracked University of Chicago Chemist Edward Anders...
...expected, the lunar rock showed no indication of any life or concentrations of organic compounds. "This is the cleanest stuff you can find anywhere," commented the University of Bristol's Geoffrey Eglinton, one of 79 foreign participants at the conference. Nor did anyone find any trace of water-past or present; this prompted one scientist to comment that the moon was a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert...