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...fabulous achievement of Sur veyor 1, which sent back more than 11,000 pictures from the surface of the moon, was a tough act to follow. In a disappointing performance last week, Surveyor 2 did not even come close...
...century copyist named Lankrink, appraised it at $280, and placed it in the July 28 auction catalogue. Then it was hung in "the Hill," a long, sloping corridor where a few specialists are allowed to browse among works soon to be sold. There it was that Oliver Millar, deputy surveyor of the Queen's painting collection, paused and pondered one day last July. As he surveyed the two plump goddesses surrounding Paris and Venus, Millar now recalls, "I smelled a Rubens...
...orbiter's prime mission is to transmit some 350 medium-and high-resolution pictures of nine possible landing sites for U.S. astronauts near the lunar equator. It will also take an admiring look at Surveyor 1, which now sits silently on the moon's Ocean of Storms after prodigiously transmitting more than 11,000 close-up pictures last June. After dry-developing its own film, Lunar Orbiter 1 will use a light scanner one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair to send pictures back to earth for kinescope reproduction...
Working on a leisurely schedule. Surveyor reported a new set of midday temperature readings and shot a short test series of television pictures. Additional picture taking was put off until later in the lunar day, when lengthening shadows would bring out more detail and perhaps even help determine if any meteors had struck near by since the last pictures. Then suddenly, a short circuit caused the battery temperature to soar to what appeared to be fatally high levels. Surveyor hurriedly made another TV sweep of the moonscape, and scientists resigned themselves to its end at last. But just as they...
Whether the rising sun had warmed the receiver until it drifted back toward its design frequency, Surveyor's ground controllers could not be sure. It was also possible that the craft's batteries had been completely discharged, that they had to wait patiently until solar panels generated enough electrical current to replenish them with a slow, "trickle" charge. Either way, there was no doubt that Surveyor was back in action, leaving JPL with the ironic task of trying to figure out what assignments to give it-the moonship had already done so much that there was little left...