Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
Image Credit: Apollo 12 Crew, NASA
Explanation: Apollo 12 was the secondmission to land humans on the Moon. The landing site was picked to be near thelocation of Surveyor 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the Moon three years earlier. In the featured photograph, taken by lunar module pilot AlanBean, mission commander Pete Conrad jiggles the Surveyor spacecraft to see howfirmly it is situated. The lunar module is visible in the distance. Apollo 12brought back many photographs and moon rocks. Among the milestones achieved byApollo 12 was the deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, which carried out many experiments including one that measured the solar wind.
阿波羅12號(hào)造訪勘測(cè)者3號(hào)
阿波羅12號(hào)是第二艘載人登月的航天器。登陸地點(diǎn)被選在之前三年登陸月球的航天器勘測(cè)者3號(hào)附近。在這幅由登月艙駕駛員Alan Bean拍攝的照片中,任務(wù)指揮官Pete Conrad正在輕搖勘測(cè)者號(hào)航天器以確認(rèn)它是否穩(wěn)固。登月艙則在不遠(yuǎn)處。阿波羅12號(hào)給我們帶回了很多照片和月巖。它取得的里程碑之一是阿波羅月面實(shí)驗(yàn)裝置的展開,完成了許多實(shí)驗(yàn),其中包括測(cè)量月面太陽風(fēng)。
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