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Old September 8th 11, 01:37 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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Default New Apollo landing site photos

On 9/7/2011 7:22 AM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

* It landed at a pretty severe angle the way it was:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_the_Moon.jpg


That's cool enough I have stored it and set it as the background on my
laptop.


It almost looks like one of the three landing legs partially collapsed
on touchdown; in another photo the angle doesn't look that seve
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...19990709_c.jpg
The mechanical arm on the Surveyor still makes me laugh because of its
cartoonish look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Surveyor3scooping.jpg

Pat