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Television observations from Surveyor

January 1, 1969
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Five successful Surveyor spacecraft landed on the Moon between June 1966 and January 1968 and returned over 87,000 pictures from the lunar surface. Surveyors I, III, V, and VI landed on mare surfaces; Surveyor VII landed in the southern highlands on the flank of the crater Tycho, the youngest, large bright-ray crater on the Moon.

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Publication Year 1969
Title Television observations from Surveyor
Authors Eugene Merle Shoemaker, E. C. Morris, R. M. Batson, H. E. Holt, Kathleen B. Larson, D. R. Montgomery, J. J. Rennilson, E. A. Whitaker
Publication Type Book Chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Index ID 70227070
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse