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Credit & Copyright: Kennedy Space Center,
NASA
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. Pictured above, Apollo
12
astronauts Conrad
and Bean retrieve parts from the Surveyor.
The Lunar Module is visible in the
distance. Apollo 12 brought back many photographs
and moon rocks. Among the milestones made 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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