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 "slug": "nasa-uap-d2",
 "title": "NASA-UAP-D2-Apollo-17-Transcript-1972",
 "agency": "NASA",
 "year": "1972",
 "page_count": 16,
 "source_page": "https://wearenotalone.space/document/nasa-uap-d2/",
 "original_file": "https://wearenotalone.space/Season 01/Release_1/NASA-UAP-D2-Apollo-17-Transcript-1972.pdf",
 "license": "U.S. Government work — public domain. Text is machine OCR from the original scan; the page image is authoritative.",
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p01.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 5/2\nCC\nYes, we copied your VI and your EMS numbers, and\nwe've got a number for you.\nManeuver start time\nwill be at 03 plus 33 plus 27.\nLMP\nOkay, we got you.\nManeuver at 03:33:27.\ncc\nThat's affirmative, Jack.\nLMP\nYou guys didn't tell us we\ngoing through the sunrise.\ncouldn't see anything\ncc\n(Laughter)\nRoger.\n00 03 25 01 cc\n17, Houston.\nWe're making plans here\ncraft SEP time of 03 plus 43.\nfor a space­\nLMP\n03 plus 43.\nRoger.\n00 03 27 27 cc\n17, Houston.\ntime.\nWe're copying cabin press of 5.9 this\nCMP\nRoger.\nWe - we just got it, Bob.\ncc\nOkay.\nCMP\nThank you.\n00 03 31 55\nLMP\nFrame 65 for the LMPs mag November November.\n00 03 34 10\nLMP\nOkay.\nWe - we are maneuvering, Houston.\ncc\nRoger.\nWe're watching it.\nCMP\nNow we've got a few very bright particles\nments or something that go drifting by as\nmaneuver.\nor\nwe\nfrag­\nCC\nRoger.\nUnderstand.\nLMP\nThere's a whole bunce of big ones on my window\ndown there - just bright.\nIt looks like the\nFourth of July out of Ron's window.\nCMP\nYes.\nNow you can see some of them in shape.\n'They're very jagged, angular fragments that are\ntumbling."
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p02.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 5/3\nCC\nRoger.\nThey look like fluid of some sort?\nCMP\nNot to me.\nThey look like pieces of something.\nCC\nRoger.\nCMP\nThey're very bright.\nCC\nJack, we'd like OMNI Charlie.\nCMP\nBob, for the most part, these fragments are not -\nor are tumbling at a very slow rate.\nI tried a\ncouple of pictures of them - different settings.\nYou may get an idea of what, at least, the patterns\nlook like.\nCC\nRoger.\nI've got you.\nWe're all ears on these frag­\nments.\nDo you think you can figure out what they\nmight be?\nCMP\nWell, you know I -\nI don't know.\nThere are a num­\nber of possibilities.\nIf you had some kind of a -\nI got the impression maybe they were curved a little\nbit, as if they might be - off the side of the\nS-IVB.\nAnd that's a wild guess\nCDR\nOkay.\nRCS LOGIC is ... -\n-\nCMP\n-\n- ice chunks, possibly.\nOr maybe there's paint\ncoming off of it.\n00 03 37 34 cc\nRoger.\nI noticed on one trip up the elevator last\nweak near one of the flags.\nI thought it was on\nthe S-II, but it might have been on the S-IVB.\nLooked like it was peeling.\nMaybe that's what\nyou've got.\n00 03 37 45 cc\nAnd the S-IVB maneuver is complete.\n00 03 37 46\nLMP\nin 1 minute.\nCDR\nOkay.\nWe'll set the old clock.\nCMP\nOkay.\nAnd the - with the maneuver complete, the\nfragment field is essentially static, except for\nvery slight tumbling within the fragments."
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p03.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 5/4\n00 03 38 01 cc\nCMP\nCC\nCMP\nLMP\nCMP\nCC\nCMP\nCC\nCDR\n00 03\n00 03\n00 03\n39\n39\n39\n35\n53\n57\ncc\nCMP\nLMP\ncc\nCMP\nLMP\nCMP\nLMP\nRoger.\nCut in.\nEvery once in a while, a fragment of considerably\nhigher velocity than the others goes across my\nwindow.\nBut that's very rare.\nRoger.\nHey, that's that field of view I saw out my window.\nJack, do you see it now?\nYes.\nAnd, Bob.\nAt least, there - there's no apparent\nrelative motion between fragments.\nRoger.\nUnderstand.\nI'll take two pictures about a minute apart if I\ncan.\nAnd it'll be Frame 70.\nOkay.\nFrame 70.\nAnd, Bob.\nThis is Geno.\nMy impression is that\nthey are - flat, flakelike particles.\nSome may\nbe 6 inches across.\nAnd, although there's no\nrelative motion between the two, most of them seem\nto be twinkling.\nAnd I think, for the most part,\nthey're all moving away from us.\nRoger, Gene.\nThank you.\nOkay.\nWe've got 0180 and 0 on the old thumbwheels.\nOkay.\nRoger, Ron.\nOkay.\nTRANS CONTROL is ARMED .\n. . . two ARMED.\nCONTROLLER number 2 is ARMED .\n... SECS LOGIC ..."
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p04.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 5/5\n00 03 40 01\nCMP\nOkay.\nLOGIC\nSECS LOGIC is\nPOWER is ON.\nCLOSED; SECS ARM are CLOSED;\nLMP\nOkay.\n00 03 40 13 cc\n17, Houston.\nYou have a GO for T&D.\nCDR\nOkay.\nA GO for T&D.\n00 03 40 38\nCMP\nOkay.\nALIGN.\nWe'll ARM the PYROs.\nAnd we'll hit the GDC\n00 03 41 00\nCMP\nAnd maneuver's complete.\nGDC?\nNo.\nIt's just ...\nAnd 0180 and O?\nOn the\nIt's kind of diddling.\n00 03 41 19\nCMP\nOkay.\nDELTA-Vin NORMAL.\n00 03 41 42\nCMP\nS-IVB, okay.\nOkay, switches are all set.\nLMP\nOkay; 59 : 30 .\n00 03 41 55\nCMP\nOkay.\nLet's start the DET.\n00 03 41 59\nCDR\nTickity-tick-tickity, Houston.\nat 59: 30.\nWe're running\ncc\nRoger.\nCMP\nOkay.\n00 03 42 12\nCMP\nOkay.\nThat's LAUNCH VEHICLE SEP, push button.\nLMP\nOkay.\n00 03 42 19\nCMP\nMC in AUTO.\nCMP\nNext?\n00 03 42 29\nCDR\nSEPARATION, Houston.\nCMP\nOkay, check the\nother ones off.\ncovers.\nOkay.\nAnd check the\nLMP\nThey're all ...\nCMP\nOkay, I'm going to start the - My gr.,sh, look at\nthe junk!\nOkay; there's 15 seconds.\nPitch her\nup.\nOkay, we'll PROCEED on the - -"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p05.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 46/4\n02 18 4111\nCDR\nCMP\n02 18 41 59\nCMP\nCDR\ncc\n02 18 42 34\nCDR\nCC\nCDR\nCC\nCDR\nCMP\nCC\nOkay.\nIs that it? Yes, I can get that, Gene.\nOkay, you want to take a picture of it first?\nOkay, POWER ... Okay, stand by.\n3, 2, 1 ­\nMARK it.\nPOWER switch OFF.\nSay, Bob or Stu.\nRoger.\nGo ahead.\nOkay, add - to ad to today.\nNot last night, but ­\nI guess the first night I was in bed - I definitely\nsaw some of these - because I had a hard time going\nto bed, to start with - I saw some of the same\nperipheral horizon-type things you said were not\nthe type of data you were looking for; but I also\nsaw a - some sets of the streaks.\nAnd probably\nthe one most imposing thing I remember is -\nand the\nlast one I remember before falling asleep - was\nthe fact that there was a very bright spot that\nflashed right between my eyes like a very bright\nheadlight - like a train coming at you, only with\na flash.\nIt's difficult probably to estimate the\nfrequency of any of those because I was in a ­\nsort of a sleep-hazy mode.\nRoger.\nBut then, as today, I saw some that flashed and\nlit up the horizon and some that lit up peripher­\nally; and I guess, as you say, that's a different\nkind of data, but I did see them there and they\nimpressed me.\nOkay.\nWe got all that, Gene.\nOkay.\nAnd it might be interesting to know I've never\nseen it before today.\nHey, Gene, we appreciate all the data.\nWe were\njust trying to make the data fit the curve; you\nknow the old trick."
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p06.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 46/5\n02 l8 44 40\nCDR\nOkay, I just wanted you to\nwe saw them.\nThat's all.\n- just told them like\nCC\nRoger.\nCDR\nI will say one thing, though; no question in my\nmind but that they're there.\nLast trip I took,\nI guess I just wasn't looking for them or paying\nany attention to them.\nMaybe they were there and\nI ignored them because of other things.\nBut they're\nthere.\nLMP\nOkay, all you flash bugs down there - or flash­\nbulbs I guess is the word - frame 50.\nI just took\nfour pictures to show - two on the side and two\non the bottom - to show the position of the ALFMED,\nand one of them of each set was focused on the\nALFMED.\nThe others were focused on the - the\nother set was focused on the struts.\nCC\nRoger, Jack.\nLMP\nAnd when you don't have anything else to do, why\ndon't you have somebody predict where the S-IVB\nis.\nI think I've got her spotted - behind us and\nabove us with respect to the Earth and our travel\nfrom it.\nCC\nFIDO just went\nget working on\nout\nit.\nand shot himself, but we'll\nLMP\nOh, don't worry about it.\nShoot.\nI thought you\nguys might have an idea off-the-cuff there.\nCC\nNo, what's humorous on this, Jack, is they have\nreally been working on that S-IVB impact point -\nand they've really been - it's been a -\na real\ndifficult problem for them so far.\nLMP\nI'll tell you, I bet you Ron could give a star\nsighting on it (laughter).\nI looked at it through\nthe monocular and sure looks like the S-IVB.\nCC\nJack, we're not doubting you at all.\nprobably start cranking it right now.\nWe could"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p07.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 46/6\n02 18 46 46 cc\nCMP\nCC\nCMP\nCC\nCMP\nCC\nCMP\nCC\n02 18 47 51\nCMP\nCDR\nJack, are you sto - you all stowing the ALFMED\nnow or are you done?\nWhat's that, Bob?\nAre you all done with the ALFMED now, Ron?\nYes, I've got to get it to - get the plate moved\nback down there yet.\nOkay, Ron ­\nget the blindfold off first so I can see what\nI'm doing.\nRoger.\nI just want you to know.\nWe've got a real\nlong update coming up to you here on the LOI abort\ncharts and that - and it's going to be, probably,\na difficult readup.\nAnd you're the most familiar\nwith the charts; you probably would want to take\nthem.\nBut whenever you want to take them, they\nare on - charts on page 3-81, 3-82, and then the\ncue card for LOI limits.\nWhenever you want to\ntake them.\nIt will be a lengthy one.\nStand by, Bob.\nLet us get squared away from the\nALFMED; then we can get going on that.\nNo, I don't want to hurry you, Ron.\nI just want\nyou to know what - when - just get yourself com­\nfortable and be ready to take them whenever you\nwant them. It's going to be a lengthy time,\nthough.\nOkay.\nHey, Bob, I'm looking at what - what Jack was\ntalking about; and it's definitely not a particle\nthat's nearby because there is another one I can\nlook at and get a three-dimensional comparison\nwith.\nIt is a - it is a bright object, and it's\nobviously rotating because it's flashing.\nIt's\nway out in the distance, as I say, because there\nare particles that are close by and it's obviously\nnot one of those. It's apparently rotating in a"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p08.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 46/7\nCC\n02 18 49 02\nCDR\n02 18 50 13\nSC\nCMP\nCC\n02 18 50 58\nCDR\nCC\nCDR\nLMP\nCDR\nCDR\nvery rhythmic fashion because the flashes come\naround almost - almost on time.\nAnd it's as we\nlook back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00\nabout - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters.\nI\ndon't know whether that does you any good, but\nthere is something out there.\nRoger.\nWe don't doubt it, Gene.\nAnd we might\nwork out a set of gimbal angles or something here;\nmaybe we can get a look at it through the optics.\nOkay.\nAnd I -\nI\nI just want to emphasize that\nit's definitely not - not one of these particles\nthat tends to look like a star out there. It's\nsomething physical in the distance.\n(Laughter)\nOh, yes.\nthing off.\nYes, guess I am.\nOkay, Gene.\nIf you can call up a NOUN 20 so we\nknow the spacecraft attitude, and if you can\nreference the object you're looking at out of your\nwindow, with - with respect to body axis and let\nus look at your - your - give us a mark, somehow,\nand give us your NOUN 20s, we can try and get a\ntie-in and start locating - locating this object\ndown for you.\nOkay, I'm looking it out - looking at it out the\ncenter window - the hatch window - and I'll give\nyou a hack when it crosses the XX axis at the\ncenter window; and I guess it's up maybe 45 degrees.\nOkay, give us a hack and we're copying your\nNOUN 20s right now.\nOkay, Jack says pitched up about 30 degrees but - ­\nNo.\n45, because ­\nYes, he agrees. It's 45 degrees pitched up, and\nI'll give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis.\nOkay ­"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p09.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 46/8\n02 18 51 32\nCDR\nCC\nCDR\n02 18 52 18\n02 18 53 10\n02 18 55 24\nLMP\nLMP\ncc\nCDR\nCMP\ncc\nCMP\nLMP\nCC\nLMP\n02 18 56 27 cc\nCDR\nMARK it. It just crossed through the - ­\nMark.\nWe got it.\nlet's call it the XZ plane of the spacecraft.\nOne unique thing about it, Bob, is that it's got\ntwo flashes.\nAs it comes around in - in rhythmic\nfashion, you get a very bright flash; and then\nyou get a dull flash.\nAnd then it'll come around\nwith a bright flash, and then a dull flash.\nThat's the side and - of the S-IVB - and then the\nengine bell, Gene.\nThe commander doesn't think that I can see the\nengine bell on that thing.\nRoger, Ja.ck.\nIs that with the monocular you're\nlooking at it?\nHe couldn't see the engine bell if he had 10 monoc­\nulars.\nOkay.\nI've got the cable restowed now.\nSay again, Ron.\nAnd, Gene, where's your blindfold? ...\nBob, couple of revolutions ago when I was looking\nat it, I had a much brighter view and I believe\nI was looking at it broadside.\nIt looks to me like\nit may be flashing more or less end-on now.\nIt's\nmuch, not - not as bright, although it's getting\nbrighter.\nBut it's not as bright now as it was\nawhile ago.\nRoger, Jack.\n... we've been noticing that, I think, for about\n24 hours or so.\nI just - hadn't put it together\nas maybe being the S-IVB.\nI thought it was just\nsome other particle out there.\nRoger, Jack.\nHey, Robert, what's the final Cowboy score?"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p10.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 46/9\nCC\nOkay; I was just going to update that.\nThe Cowboys\nwon it 34 to 24.\nAnd by winning it, they wrap up\nthe wild-card slot in the NFC; and so both Wash­\nington and Dallas will be in the playoffs.\n02 18 56 53\nCDR\nSounds good.\nLMP\nBob, that line of clouds I called a fir-tree pat­\ntern that swings up towards Hawaii: Hawaii, if\nyou will - has - also has a mushroom pattern on\nthe top. It has the appearance as if tvo major\nair masses - one going from west to east and the\nother form east to west - have converged along\nthat line, and the joint movement of air at the\ninterface being south to north.\nAnd up in the\narea of Hawaii, I think, it tends to mushroom so\nthat the pattern then goes back to flow from west\nto east on the east side and from east to west on\nthe west side.\nCC\nRoger.\n02 18 58 27\nLMP\nIn a little while, we'll probably get a pretty\ngood look at a - what looks like a very concen­\ntrated intense storm that, I think, is just - east ­\nCMP\n*** And then we' 11 put them. once we get updated a\nlittle bit.\nYes, I'll get out of VOX in a minute.\nLMP\nI was looking for the Flight Plan and stuff.\nAnd\nthe little books.\nLMP\nSay, Bob.\nCC\nGo ahead.\nLMP\nHouston, 17.\nHow do you read?\nCC\nGo ahead, Jack.\nRead you loud and clear.\nCDR\nOkay, Bob, you want to update the LOI card and\nFlight Plan 3-82 and 3-81; is that right?\nCC\nThat's affirmative.\nCDR\nWhich one do you want to start on?"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p11.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 47/14\nAnd I'll just confirm that the - that disturbance\nover the So - Solomon Islands is an awfully tightly\nwound little storm system.\nAnd right now, I finally\nhave see New Zealand for the first time in a couple\nof days, for sure.\nAnd the South Island's got some,\nprobably high cirrus over it. North Island looks\npretty clear. That's the end that I can get right\nnow.\nCC\nRoger.\nWe saw you looking at Regulus there; we\ndidn't realize you were looking at the Earth\ninstead.\nLMP\nRon's been looking for the booster.\nAnd he\nme down and asked me to look at the Earth.\nbeen holding out on me.\ncalled\nHe's\nCC\nRoger.\nLMP\nPass the torch of weather forecasting to Ron.\n02 20 55 22 cc\nHey, Jack.\nI also have some words for you and\nGene.\nGot some advice from the home front.\nThe\nthing to do with Ron in the future is to hook up\na Baby Ben and a metal dishpan. It works every\ntime, if you want to wake him up.\nCMP\nNo.\nI think that's not a good way.\nCC\nRon, everybody I s fine over at El Lago.\ndoing great.\nListening to every word.\nThey are\nCMP\nVery good, Bob.\nThank you very much.\nCDR\nHey, Bob.\nWe got two of those flashers out there.\nThey could be SLA panels.\nI don't know.\nThey're\nalike in intensity and pretty regular in the - in\nthe intensity, bright and dim flashes they come\nout with, and they're widely separated.\nOne is\nabout the position we called at the first time;\nthe other one is - oh, as I'm looking at the Earth,\nfar to the left. Closer to the center window now.\n02 20 56 52 cc\nRoger.\n02 21 01 07\nLMP\nHouston, 17,"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p12.jpg",
   "text": "CC\nGo ahead.\nLMP\nYes, Bob, what is your ­\nhave it - surface tenns\nHawaii today?\nCC\nStand by on that.\nCC\nJack, according to the ­\nTape 47/15\nanalysis chart, if you\nanalysis chart show for\n-\nLMP\nThe reason I\nGo ahead.\nask is that for using your term -\nCC\nNo, go ahead on that, Jack.\nLMP\nI was going to say, using your terminator time as\na partial - mark for where Hawaii ought to be,\nHawaii ought to be, it looks like that cyclonic\ncirculation at the north end of the cloud bank I\ndescribed, approaching that area, would be Just\nabout on the Hawa - Hawaiian Islands.\nI'm curious\nif they're getting some weather down there now.\nCC\nStand by right now; I've got my weathennan right\nbeside me here.\nLMP\nAlso, that major front we talked about last night\nas being east and south of Japan has progressed\neven farther and is, oh, maybe 20 degrees longi­\ntude - about 20 degrees longitude from the Hawaiian\nIslands.\nAnd I'm making some guesses on exactly\nwhere Hawaii is.\nCC\nRoger, Jack.\nWe've got nothing adverse in the\nHawaiian area at all. Just a lot of winds , high\nwinds and surface winds and surface roughness,\nbut we don't have any bad cloud area in the\nHawaiian area. I'll get the Hickam sequence re­\nport here shortly, Jack.\nLMP\nOkay, ... a little bit. The - our zero-phase\npoint is now centered just a little south of the\ndisturbance near the Solomon Islands.\nAnd I see\nno distinct change in the intensity of that zero­\nphase point over what I had talked about a couple\nhours ago."
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p13.jpg",
   "text": "Tape 47/16\n02 21 04 23 cc\nRoger, Jack.\nThe Solomon Islands disturbance\nand everything is confirmed on this chart that\nI've got. It's very definitely confirmed in there.\nLMP\nOkey.\nWell , it's a lot more obvious todey than\nit was yesterday; but even then it was showing\npretty strong circulation. It is starting to\nwrap up, look very much like Therese did yesterday.\nCC\nRoger.\nI'm sure of that.\nThe one right off of\nVietnam is also pretty tight, isn't it still?\nLMP\nWell, we can't see that one yet.\nCC\nOkay.\nLMP\nAustralia in general is still very clear except\nin the northeastern portions where it looks like\nthey have got scattered clouds; but it looks like\na pretty night - over Australia.\nCC\nRoger.\nLooks that way from the satellite photo\nfrom the last couple deys.\nLooks pretty nice\ndown there.\n02 21 05 34\nLMP\nRight.\n02 21 07 05\ncc\nJack, in looking at the sequence reports for\nHickam and Hilo and that area, it looks like they\njust got their standard 3500 scattered, 4500 broken\nclouds , maybe a rain shower or two.\nBut just\ntheir standard tropical fluffy clouds.\nEND OF TAPE"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/nasa-uap-d2/p14.jpg",
   "text": "cc\n03 15 33 25\nI.MP\nTape 59/19\nmare. Still looking at Oceanus Procellarum.\nAnd\nnow, out window 3, up to the northwest, Grimaldi\nis starting to show up -\na very obvious dark area\nwithin the highlands of that part of the Moon ­\nand one of the darkest mare regions that we have\nseen on the -\non the Moon.\nIt I s comparable, at\nleast in the photographs, to that of Tsiolkovsky.\nRoger.\nNormally, of course, we think of the dark mare as\nbeing the younger basalt flows that -\non the Moon,\nbut in our case, of course, young means something\non the order of 3 billion years or older.\nEND OF TAPE"
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   "text": "Tape 60/1\nAPOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPrION\n03 15 33 44 cc\nRoger.\nLMP\nFor our interp - If we can extrapolate from the\nsamples returned by other missions.\nLMP\nAmazing how far over - now the highlands to the\nwest of Procellarum are - still are bright, and the\ncontrast between fresh craters and the normal high­\nland are very - are very obvious still in earthlight,\nparticularly along the zero phase point with respect\nto the Earth.\nRima Gamma now is - is coming a lit­\ntle bit closer to our oval track in the horseshoe\nin the - larger and more western end of it; the\ndark horseshoe is quite clear in this light. It's\na west - or northwest-pointing horseshoe, as is the\ncomplete trend of that strange feature.\nI think\nRon is going to have an excellent chance to study\nthese light-colored swirls within the mare and\nother parts of the Moon.\nWe had some good views\nof them and Mare Marginis and to the east of\nCrisium - Mare Crisium, and he should - if there\nis anything to be seen, he should be able to see\nit for - during the next few days.\nCC\nOkeydoke.\n03 15 35 50\nCDR\nSay, Gordo, something I just noticed here in work­\ning with the GDC what-have-you.\nI - looked at the\nPc gage, and in the Pz - Pc position, there is a\ncontinuous bias on it now of about, oh, 7 percent,\nand if I switch to ALPHA, it goes to zero.\nWe never\nsaw that bias before this last burn.\nCC\nRoger, Gene.\n03 15 36 35\nLMP\nHey, Gordy, I'm looking right up the western edge\nof the Procellarum mare where it contacts the ­\nthe - the high - western highlands of the Moon, and\nwe're just about to fly a little bit south of\nGrimaldi.\nThat edge is very irregular.\nThere is\nno obvious indications that it - there are large\nbasins that have been flooded by mare that have\nformed that edge, but, again, the topographic dis­\ntinction's possible in this lighter small.\nNow I'm\nstarting to see that there are shadows in the craters."
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   "text": "Tape 60/2\nCC\nRoger.\nLMP\nThat's the small craters.\nThere, in the Mare\nProcellarum closest to Grimaldi, there are two\narcuate rilles.\nLook like they are probably\nV-shaped in their cross section.\nI'm sure we've\nseen those on the photographs much better than I\ncan see them here.\nThose - the rille patterns,\nthough, do seem to project over into the highlands.\nCC\nOkay.\nLMP\nTo the north of that - to the north of that bay\nof mare.\nJust interrupt.\n03 15 38 09\nLMP\nHey, I just saw a flash on the lunar surface!\nCC\nOh, yes?\nLMP\nIt was just out there north of Grimaldi.\nJust\nnorth of Grimaldi.\nYou might see if you got any­\nthing on your seismometers, although a small impact\nprobably would give a fair amount of visible light.\nCC\nOkay.\nWe'll check.\nLMP\nIt was a bright little flash right out there near\nthat crater.\nSee the crater right at the edge of\nGrimaldi.\nThen there is another one north of it.\nFairly sharp one north of it is where there was\njust a thin streak of light.\nCC\nHow about putting an X on the map where you saw it.\nLMP\nI keep looking occasionally for - yes, we will.\nI -\nI was planning on looking for those kind of\nthings.\nStarting to see the edge of Orientale,\nGordy.\nWay off to the west.\nHey, just yell,\nGene, anytime you -\n-\n03 15 39 46\nLMP\nGordy, to the north of Grimaldi there is a large\nbasin that is about the same size but only incom­\npletely filled with mare in its northeastern\nquadrant.\nThe rest of it looks like a fairly ir­\nregular and hummocky floor material of some kind.\nCC\nRoger,"
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