Surveyor V

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Surveyor mission was to perform a soft-landing in the Apollo area of interest on the Moon and to take television pictures of the lunar surface around its landing site. The spacecraft landed at 7:46 p.m. EST, on September 10, in the Sea of Tranquillity, at 1.41° N latitude and 23.18° E longitude.

This is a wide-angle picture of the far field and horizon to the northwest. Dark area along the bottom of the picture is part of the wall of the crater in which Surveyor V rests.

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Surveyor V included a miniature chemical analysis lab using an alpha particle backscatter device that was used to determine the nature of the lunar surface soil. The pictures show the first “chemistry set” on the Moon; one landing foot resting on the lunar surface; an angular lunar fragment five feet across lying on the floor of the crater in which the spacecraft landed (left to right).

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Mosaic of narrow angle frames showing the Alpha scattering instrument after the Vernier engines were fired; a composite photograph of the trench made by footpad #2; narrow angle mosaic of the lunar surface under the Vernier engine #3, as seen through the auxiliary mirror; mosaic of narrow angle pictures showing the northwest wall of the crater in which the spacecraft is located and the far field beyond the rim of the crater extending to the horizon (photographs from left to right and top to bottom).

The last mosaic shows that “the spacecraft is on a 20° slope in a crater about 11 m long, 9 m wide, and 1.5 m deep. The top edge of the crater is clearly discernible about one-third of the way down from the top of the picture. The camera is actually about one-half meter above the edge of the crater, so the picture appears as though one were standing in the crater, looking toward and over the far side. Most of the small craters nearby are a few meters wide. The lunar horizon is about a kilometer away,” according to R. J. Dankanyin, Manager, Surveyor Scientific Payload Systems, Hughes Aircraft Company (Cortright, p.70).