Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
Explanation:
Apollo 12 was the second mission to
land humans on the
Moon.
The landing site was picked to be near the location of
Surveyor 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the
Moon
three years earlier.
In the featured photograph, taken by lunar module pilot
Alan Bean,
mission commander
Pete Conrad
jiggles the Surveyor spacecraft to see how firmly it is situated.
The lunar module is
visible in the distance.
Apollo 12
brought back many photographs and moon rocks.
Among the milestones achieved by
Apollo 12 was the
deployment of the
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package,
which carried out many experiments including one that measured the
solar wind.
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