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533 a Because Irwin’s camera was jammed and he therefore couldn’t take photographs from his passenger seat, Scott made a pause driving the Rover and took himself a photograph of a remarkable boulder on the way to Hadley Canyon.
164:52:53 Irwin: Sitting right on the surface... 164:52:54 Scott: Yeah. 164:52:55 Irwin: ...a block angular frag on the northwest side about one-quarter of the way down... 164:53:03 Scott: Yeah. 164:53:04 Irwin: ...into the crater. But, a very subdued crater. That block is... 164:53:09 Scott: Isn’t that something? We’ve got to drive right by it, anyway. (Pause) 164:53:15 Allen (Mission Control): And, Jim, don’t hesitate to fire off pictures right and left here. We’ve got lots of film. 164:53:22 Irwin: Oh, I wish I could, Joe! (Pause) [Because Irwin’s camera is broken, only Scott can take pictures.] 164:53:28 Scott: Right there. 164:53:31 Irwin: Okay, we’ve stopped. 164:53:32 Scott: Just for a second, though. 164:53:33 Allen: Okay. 164:53:35 Scott: Getting it (the photo). (Pause) Got it.
533 b A frame of the panoramic sequence taken by Scott from the rim of a small “relatively fresh” crater called Scarp Crater at station 9 about 300 meters east of Hadley Canyon. The crater is filled with blocks of regolith breccia or “instant rock”, formed from soil compressed during the impact. The Apennine Front and Hadley Delta are in the left and right backgrounds.
165:05:07 Scott: ...I’ll get a pan from the rim of Scarp. And the rim is very, very soft. My boot sinks in a good - if I push on it - a good 4 inches. And the whole center part of the crater is just full of debris. Very angular, glass in the center. It’s about, oh, I guess, 40 meters across and maybe 5 or 6 meters...No, not that much. 3 or 4 meters deep. And a slightly-raised rim. An ejecta blanket that goes out about one crater diameter, quite uniform. I don’t see any rays.
533 c A frame of the panoramic sequence taken by Scott from the rim of a small, fresh crater at station 9 about 300m east of Hadley Canyon. Bennett Hill is in the background behind Hadley Canyon whose far upper wall is barely visible (behind the Rover).
“The surface at this station”, Scott said, “was smooth but rough. Smooth on a small scale” but rough enough on the large scale that “you really could get lost. Up and down.”
“It’s like driving over the big sand dunes in the desert,” Irwin added. “It wasn’t at all like driving up to Hadley Delta,There, you could always look back and see the LM” (from the ALSJ mission summary).
533 d The astronauts parked the rover at Station 9 which was located approximately 1.4 kilometres west of the LM and 300m east of the edge of Hadley Canyon. Bennett Hill is in the background behind Hadley Canyon whose far upper wall is barely visible. The gnomon is in the foreground. At the left side of the picture, Irwin’s left hand, sample bag and shadow are visible.
533 e Astronauts’ lunar tools, shadows and boots are visible in these close-ups taken as the astronauts were sampling the lunar surface. Scott took the photographs with the only working 60mm lens Hasselblad camera. James Irwin can be seen in the last two photographs.
165:08:42 Irwin: I’ll come over there, Dave. I put on the other mag (on the camera); it doesn’t work. I think the shutter’s working on the camera, but the drive is not. 165:08:48 Scott: It was working fine last night (as the astronauts checked the camera in the LM after its EVA-2 failure). 165:08:53 Irwin: Okay, I’ll come over. 165:08:55 Scott: Okay. This stuff is really soft; (bag 2) 73. 165:09:04 Allen (Mission control): Roger. (Long Pause) 165:09:27 Irwin: Well, if you want, Dave, I can take your camera and do all the documentation pictures. 165:09:30 Scott: No, I can do it just as well.
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