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...Surveyor 4 sped toward the moon's Central Bay at 5,938 m.p.h. last week, ground controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had high hopes that the unmanned spacecraft would do everything it was told. Two earlier Surveyors had soft-landed on the moon with astonishing ease, sent back 17,465 detailed pictures showing even lunar pebbles. With a hinged aluminum arm, Surveyor 3 had also scooped up lunar soil, helped determine that the moon's surface is strong enough to bear a weight of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support...
...that inane reverse-and double-reverse Gaston-and-Alphonse jig that Lyndon and Aleksei trotted out, what would have happened if the surveyor had missed the halfway point by a hundred feet? Would they have thrown up a tent in the backyard and torn up poor old Tom Robinson's rose garden? Honestly...
Color photographs of the lunar surface beneath a deep black sky confirmed the findings of Surveyor I that the moon was grey. "The grey varies in shade from pale to very dark," said U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Eugene Shoemaker, "but it appears to be still basically all grey...
Blue-Green Earth. In Washington, NASA showed the first moon movies, pieced together from still pictures shot by Surveyor during its first lunar day. One film strip showed the spacecraft's claw digging a small trench in the soil. Another, taken at sunset, followed the edge of lunar night as it swallowed Surveyor's lengthening shadow and moved on across the crater until only a few high clumps of rocklike material remained lighted against a black...
NASA also released several Surveyor color photographs shot through red, green and blue filters by the craft's black-and-white TV camera and reconstituted on earth to give a good approximation of colors as they appear on the moon. The most striking of these showed a blue-green, cloud-mottled crescent in the dark lunar sky-Surveyor's view of the earth. A color version of Surveyor's black-and-white pictures of the earth eclipsing the sun (TIME, May 5, 1967) showed the dark disk of the earth silhouetted against a yellow-orange halo, caused...