Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR-EVA: Stand by; let me fix these for you while I'm here. Okay. Here's your doffing harness on this side. Don_t move yet, I've got to - I've got something I've got to do to you.
CDR-EVA: Okays okay. Turn around, I'11 get your harness on _he other side.
LMP-EVA: Let me get yours too. CDR-EYA Okay. Okays there you go. Okay, you've got a cap dispenser s you've got a rammer, and you've got - _ell_ I guess SCB-8_ if I'm not mistaken.
LMP-EVA: Yes, that's all right_ they got it. Okay. That's 1.
CDR-EVA: Okay. You can give me SCB-5 then, and -
LMP-EVA: Yes. Can you move - move a little bit? There you go. Okay. There you are.
LMP-EVA: No - no, I'm sorry. In fact, I've got to tighten up your -
CDR-EVA: We've got to take a picture of that fender if it works.
LMP-EVA: Wait a minute - No, if you weren't so tall - and you - you are always saying - you Just invariably stand so I have to get in a hole. Okay. Now let me tighten up your whole shooting match here. It's loose again. Hang on. Okay. Between Velcro and snaps, the world could never fall apart.
CDR-EVA: Okay, all set?
LMP-EVA: You're set.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I'm going to get a h_mer, and then I'11 get the TGE. site.
CC: Okay. Why don't you start to the SEP site - -
CDR-EVA: Hey, Jack, when you start running - -
CC: - - and, also, I presume that the dustbrush is on the Rover now.
CDR-EVA: It is.
CDR-EVA: It is. Jacks when I drive out there why don't you watch the rear wheel.
LMP-EVA: I will. Give me a yell when you start to drive.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Both the steering and the rooster tail - Oh, I hope it's not all zeros. Okay, Bob. 670, 017, 701; 670, 017, 701.
CC: Okay. hod, Jack, when you get out to the SEP site, you might give us a reading on what the solar panels look like - how they survived the night with the tape on them. LMP-E_ i wouldn't think of not doing that. I'm curious myself.
CC: Okay. Copy that. CDR-E_& Okay. I'm msking an inventory. I've got the LCRU battery. Okay. We got 1, 3 and 2 and 8; LCRU blankets are open 100 percent. Battery covers are CLOSED. Dustbrush is on the LCRU. TGE is on the Rover. Jacks can you verify we got the right ma_s and a polar filter? Polarization.
LMP-EVA: Yes sir. I verified that.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Very good. L_-EVA You better put that 500 back under the seat.
CDR-EVA: Yes. That's where it's going. L_,_-EVA Well, Bob_ it looks like - it survived. There is a - as I stand behind the panels - the left-hand panel may be tilted at about - well, less than 5 degrees_ probably about 2 or 3, but that's all. Looks pretty good right now.
CC: Okay; beautiful_ Thank you. Good fix.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Bobs I'm going to take the TV from you.
CC: Okay, Copy th_t_ Geno,
CC: Copy the.ts Jack. 93A/23 Tape LM2-EVA (Laughter) If I can do it without destroying it.
CDR-EVA: Yes. That's hard to do out there_ Jack. Okay. TV camera going POSITION 1.
LMP-EVA: Transmitter's on and - ... fix the level there. Okay. The level is on the inner ring again. And - well, the gnomon has moved a little bit, but not much. But you would expect that, I guess.
CC: Yes. Seeing the other end of the gnomon up there in the sky it's moved a little bit.
LMP-EVA: Yes. That's what I said.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Camera, tongs, and I'11 drive. West leg, heading 270.
CC: Copy that. Charlie 26 - 27. just have. The first part of my roll will have a lot of random exposures and focuses.
LMP-EVA: Okay. We're back in business. And I'm - while I'm waiting for Gene, getting a rock - it looks a little finer grained than the others we've seen in the LR¥ sampler, along with some soil. And that's done. Hey, that's a neat sampler. Only way to fly. Okay, and that's in bag 22E. It has the stereo docmllen- tation and a /ocator to the LM, and it's about 2 meters from the S - from the SEP.
LMP-EVA: 22 Echo.
CDR-EVA: Bob, let me give you some readings, so I can get going.
CC: Okay. Go ahead, Geno.
CDR-EVA: Ok_. Amp hours, 108, 100; volts are 68, 68; batteries are 80 and ]02; and motors are all off scale low. I'm on the way. On the way, Jack.
LMP-EVA: i'm waiting. CDR-E_A Oh, there you are over there, huh?
CC: And, Jack, how's the rooster tail look on that fender?
LMP-EVA: Looks like it's going backwards. I don't see any coming up over the top. Looks like a good fix.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Jack, I got to come around - I'm going to come on this side and head west_
LMP-EVA: Okay. Watch for - You got the antennas?
CDR-EVA: I've got one over here. LMm-EVA Okay. I'11 - give you a line on the other one.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I'm getting close.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Turn.
LMP-EVA: Right here. I'm on it.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Okay. And I see the other one - let me parallel that line.
CC: Low gain_ Gene, please; after you get stopped.
CDR-EVA: I guess that's about 2 or 3 meters, huh, Jack? You can better see where it - is at.
LMP-EVA: Yes, that's good, Geno.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Heading 270. L_-EVA You want to - -
CDR-EVA: Am I 10 meters from the transmitter?
LMP-EVA: Probably not, huh? You're pretty - no, you need to go about 5 meters.
CDR-EVA: How far am I? See if it's okay.
LMP-EVA: You're about 3 meters - 4 meters.
CDR-EVA: Hey, Bob, I'm 3 meters to the west of the trans- 2-1/2 mitter and about meters south of the line going west - -
CC: There's no problem there, Gene.
CDR-EVA: - - Is that okay?
CC: Don't move. It's just they had to be less than those numbers.
CDR-EVA: Okay; and let me give them a voltage reading, and I'm still reading 68 and 68.
CC: Okay; copy that. We don't need those, we just got them. And - -
CDR-EVA: I know, I just wanted to keep you on it.
CC: - - give me the nay numbers. And give us some nay numbers.
CDR-EVA: Okay. 265, 0.2, and 0.1.
CC: The - that heading - we want heading, pitch, roll, and sun dial there, Gene.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I'm sorry_ Bob. Okay; you want a nay update here?
CC: Nav initialized, Geno. CDR-E_gA Yes, sir; you dOo
CDR-EVA: Yes, sir_ I'm sorry.
CC: Go to the next page. LY_-EYA Let me - Set me change my position here, Just a sukosh_ Let me change my position a sukosh.
CDR-EVA: I knew you'd - Bob, what was that last LRV sa_aple number I gave you?
CC: 22 Echo, 22 Echo°
CC: Osay_ copy that.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Bob. 265 - 265_ 0.3, 0.1; roll is 1 right, pitch is 0, and the sun shaft device is 0. I'm heading 281 degrees.
CC: Okay; copy that. Stand by.
CC: Copy that_
LMP-EVA: - - and the RECEIVE POWER switch is on.
CC: Copy that. LMm-EVA And, I guess you're going to hand me EP-4. Get rid of this.
CC: Okay. 282 is the preferred but that's too small to bother torquing, Gene; you're good as is. We're ready for you guys to go.
CDR-EVA: Okay. That looks good because I have to come left just a sukosh there to proceed parallel down the west line.
CC: Okay. We're ready for you guys to go. We presume you have the SEP photos, Jack.
CC: Okay. And get your frame - we don't need - you can give us a frame count if you want. Remember to pick up EP-4 when you get in the Rover.
LMP-EVA: Okay. We got it, and the frame count is 17.
CC: Copy 17 for the LMP, and we need a nay reset to verify there, Gene.
CDR-EVA: I did nav reset; I'm reading all balls.
CC: Okay. And did you happen to check the - -
CDR-EVA: And it is back off.
CC: - - SEP temperature when you turned it on, Gene? Jack? The receiver?
LMP-EVA: No. I didn't; I didn't. Doubt if it changed much since I called you.
CC: Okay. We'11 catch it at station 2.
CC: Okay. Low gain - -
CDR-EVA: Okay, Jack, we got transmitter and receiver both on, huh?
CC: - - antenna is 240 and we're ready for you guys to leave.
CC: Give us a mark on the leave.
CDR-EVA: 0k_f. Here you go_ Jack_ we need - The SEP antenna ar:d receiver - receivez' and transmitter, both on, huh ?
CDR-EVA: Okay .... -_ -
CC: 0ks_¢_ And_ Gene_ remember we want a mark when you pass the end of Lhe antenna. Ok_a(,__ CDR-E_A LI_P-EVA Can d.riwe fairly slowly, hu_?
CDR-EVA: Yas_ _til I gec past the end° I got to get my heading changed about 10 degrees to parallel. We'_e s-Bill in the sazae relative position_ Bob.
CC: 'Oka,!, , Very good_
CDR-EVA: Ot_y.
CC: Oka:?_ We vre Iilarking that. Slo:,rly,
CDR-EVA: Okay, S-haNd b} _ Bob,
CC: O?.ay. Copy that.
CDR-EVA: O_':ay, We want to ge ]sash .., at heading 260, Jack_ L}_P-EVA Well: we wan_ to get c.b 080 and 0.4 and get rid of this cnar6e.
CDR-EVA: Okay. . o, - - LPP-EVA Yes. I want 'co ,.o - - couple
CC: 0kaF_ !7_ a of words there as you drive along. Let me _ive them to you early here. One, we didn't bother ¢o change all the numbers on the chscklisL.; buzz, by and large, because we think 93A/29 Tape we're 200 meters east of where we were_ you should probably increase all those numbers except for the explosive package numbers by about two-tenths to get the distance at which you will come across these areas. Again it's about 0.4, 0.5, and we expect to deploy EP-4. The more important number though is that it's 0.2 west of the ALSEP. As you pass the ALSEP, you might know what the range and distance are reading at that point.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Range - range is the one that changes - on No, wait a minute, that -
LMP-EVA: I'11 get it. Which is it? Range changes every half - on the half kilometer.
LMP-EVA: Distance.
CC: Roger, Jack. The range is - -
CDR-EVA: ... go around ... - -
CC: What changes in the middle at 0.50 meters and 150 meters.
LMP-EVA: Okay. We - The fender fix is working so far.
CDR-EVA: Let me get around your flag. There's your flag way out there, isn't it?
CDR-EVA: Let me get around that. Man - That's really giving the ALSEP some room.
LMP-EVA: Yes. Okay, Bob. We're still seeing - the l_ght- colored gabbroic rocks. I think the reason I said 50 percent was because in this light they look light-colored, and that's probably largely because of the zap pit halos.
CC: Okay. I copy that, Jack. LM_-E¥_ But, in the ..._ it looked like the standard - standard gabbro.
CDR-EVA: _nd_ Bobs I'm - i'm full ouz at about 11 - - Z_MP-EVA 0kay_ you can - you can turn right_ now.
CDR-EVA: Z'm full out at about 11 clicks right now.
CC: Beautiful. CDR-EV& Oops .... (Laughter)
CC: You can give me a call as you pass by the ALSEP as you get ready to deploy the charge, please.
CDR-EVA: Okay. We're almost due south of the ALSEP now.
CDR-EVA: ... that. iYve got to work my way through here.
CC: .... copy that. Go about 0,2 kilometers further than that.
LMP-EVA: It's a little rocky out here.
CDR-EVA: Yes, iz stu-e is.
LMP-EVA: Eveyy - In the area we are now - you get a dis- tance that was -
CDR-EVA: Okay. We just clicked to 4. I want to move over this way just a s_2_osh_
CDR-EVA: 0ksy_ i can - I'm just south of my geophone 2 flag now.
CC: Okay_ If you just clicked to 4, let's go to 6 then, just past the click on 6. LMLP-EVA 0ka__. And Foe want about 080?
CDR-EVA: Plenty good enough. I got to start heading right out here, right toward my - upper graphic - -
LMP-EVA: Okay. Hole-in-the-Wall should be just to the left of the notch. CDR-EYA Yes. That's exactly where I'm heading.
LMP-EVA: And I think we're coming up closer to the rim of camelot. It's starting to look like a crater now.
LMP-EVA: 5 ·
CDR-EVA: Okay, Bob. Here's your charge. Pick a spot, Jack.
LMP-EVA: Okay; can you swing right out over there - -
LMP-EVA: - - about 10 meters ahead? L_-EVA Okay. Give me a shallow turn.
LMP-EVA: Okay. And I'11 set it right there on that - i_l that - Can you move forward, and I'11 get it in that little depression.
LMP-EVA: You see on the other side of the rock.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Bob; 083, 0.6, and 0.5.
CC: I copy ths.t_ Jack - -
CDR-EVA: Yes (laughter)_
CC: - - if you can give us a frame count, we'd appreci- ate it. And I might remind you two to both check that - -
CDR-EVA: Don't fall over.
CC: - - you're at MIN cooling since you've got a long drive ahead of you there.
LMP-EVA: Hey, Z lost my sample thing.
CDR-EVA: Threw it in the floor? Lr_P-EVA i hope so.
LMP-EVA: Yes, it's going to stay.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Have you got anything to ... If not, I'11 do a partial for you.
LMP-EVA: Yes. We got to do a partial. I'd like to know where that sampler is. Well, we can do without it, I guess.
CDR-EVA: Yes. Sure be nice to - What did it do; come off the end?
LMP-EVA: Yes, I think I can check it though.
CDR-EVA: Get your pan?
LMP-EVA: Yes. if you go around to - to seeing that big block there by the ALSEP, then you can - Forget it.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Okay. I'11 just come on around, and I'11 pick up my tracks. Do you want to get that sampler? Can you see it?
LMP-EVA: I think I'd better look.
CDR-EVA: Ail right. Take a look. Bob, one stop here for about 2 seconds.
LMP-EVA: Okay. It's down there.
CDR-EVA: Why don't you put it on real quick and -
LMP-EVA: I don't know why - It was hard to put on. Surprised it came off. Here let me - let me hold the end.
CDR-EVA: You got to - got them retracted?
LMP-EVA: Retracted.
CDR-EVA: They'11 retract. And let me know when.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Okay. It's - it's loose.
CDR-EVA: Retracted. You want it - how you want it? L_M?-EVA Retract it again.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Retract it. L_-EVA No - Let go_ let go - no_ it's just hooking.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Try it - push it in once more.
LMP-EVA: Okay. The best I can do. I'11 Just lock - I'11 twist it down on there and maybe it'11 hold.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I'11 just have to be careful. Okay. I've got it.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Oh - oh.
LMP-EVA: You don't have to put it in - push down.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Oksy. Let's go. Every time you pick your seatbelt up ... It's untwisted now. CDR-EV& Okay?
CDR-EVA: Ail set? LM?-EVA Just about.
CC: Okay, Jack, a reminder. We're still seeing you in intermediate. You probably will want to go to min before you get back on.
CDR-EVA: He's back on now.
LMP-EVA: And we're rolling.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Let's go to Hole-in-the-Wall. Yes, sir.
CC: Okay. One other thing I might mention to you guys as you're driving here, Jack, before you start talk- ing again, is that - as you go by Camelot, you might keep an eye out for blocks along the rim there, because remember - we may be wanting to come back and move station 5 to an area where there's blocks, unless there are blocks at the present nominal sta- tion 5. So you might keep an eye for that and plan for the way back. A second thing a reminder, if you do stop for a Rover sample or one thing or another along the way, give us a call and keep us informed_ because we're timing you on the way out and the assumption is_ of course, that driving time out equals drive-back time. And we're under a 63-minute limit to get you from the LM out _o the station 2 because of OPS drive back. So, keep us informed so we can keep a good tab.
LMP-EVA: Okay, Bob. Okay. We'11 keep you informed.
CDR-EVA: Bob, I got the thing tube-locked, and I'm averaging probably 10 to 11 clicks. It's not exactly straight-line navigation, but I think I can hold most of it.
LMP-EVA: Watch the crater - there you go.
CC: And, Jack, a reminder - -
CC: And, Jack, a reminder on photos yesterday. You apparently took quite a few on the way back from station 1 to the SEP, and we're right nominal on budget now. But, considering the fact that we didn't do much sampling if you continue to use them at the rate you did yesterday coming back from station 1, at least as we understand it, you'11 be pushing us pretty hard in the budget. Should be every 50 meters or every 100 meters.
LMP-EVA: Bob, okay. And you want to hear something?
CC: Roger. I'11 listen now.
LMP-EVA: Okay. The surface is not changing in terms of the detail. The surface texture of the fine- grained regolith still is - has a raindrop pattern. We're more - the blocks still look very much like what we sampled yesterday around the LM. They're light colored, apparently gabbros, with zap pits - zap halos. Occasional craters show lighter colored ejectas both all the way down to - say half a meter in size. Other craters that are Just as blocky as those with bright halos have no bright- ness associated with them. Most of the brightest craters have a little central pit in the bottom which is glass lined. The pit is maybe - a fifth of the diameter of the crater itself. It's a fairly standard thing for most of these fresher craters, is that little central pit.
LMP-EVA: We've got the .,. - oh, and there's Camelot.
CDR-EVA: Oh, Whoo! Manischewitz. Take a couple of pictures looking at that.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Can you swing a little? CDR-EYA Yes.
CDR-EVA: That is a 600-meter crater.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I - I - -
CDR-EVA: And it is very likely we won't have any problem finding blocks on the rim of Camelot.
CC: Hey, how about a bearing and range there to help us pick out the LM ... Roger. How about bearing and range to help us pick out the LM location.
CC: Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
LMP-EVA: Bob, listen - L_-EVA Okay. There's a little - CDF-EVA Man, are there blocks there.
LMP-EVA: Now that - little crater in the ejecta did not of Camelot, at least the rim of Camelot_ did not bring up blocks on the rim. It may have been an old depression. Bob, there is extremely blocky area. This would - I think station 5 was over there where that block area is. The light-colored areas on the photos are essentially - blocky. They're probably 30 percent blocks. Ail of them are in the - many of them are in the 2- to 3- to 4-meter size range. Ail of them look light colored, look like the gabbro we sampled from a distance. They have light-halo zap pits on them. I see only occasional grayer varieties, which I believe are the nonvesicular ones like we also sampled.
CC: Okay. Copy that, Jack. Very good.
LMP-EVA: But the light-colored gabbros are dominant.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Station 5 would have been - rather than in a light-colored area would have been in a very blocky area. Station 5 is probably still very good for blocks.
LMP-EVA: There is probably as big blocks there as anywhere on the rim that we've seen.
CC: Copy that. L_-EVA Okay. We ought to be going be - really between Horatio and Camelot now.
CDR-EVA: No. I'm going to give them a call when we're due south of Camelot and see if they can't get a posi- tion on us.
CDR-EVA: Hold it, Jack.
LMP-EVA: 0oh, watch it.
CDR-EVA: Hold it; hold it.
LMP-EVA: You can go around that one.
CDR-EVA: You bet you (laughter). Whoo! That slowed the speed up a little bit.
CDR-EVA: You can unwrinkle your toes now. Okay.
LMP-EVA: Oh. I wasn't worried, Gene. Watch that block there; it's probably more than 14 inches. And got a fairly close look at the rock, and it is the vesicular - looks very much like the vesicular clinopyroxene gabbro.
LMP-EVA: Now_ the surface of Camelot is mantled - or the rim - is mantled with the same dark-gray material, and it has the same surface texture - a very fine raindrop pattern. The saturation crater size does not look bigger than a half a meter, if that.
CC: Okay. Thank you, Gene.
LMP-EVA: One crater - Okay. We ought to see Horatio here pretty quick. I think it's right up in front of US.
LMP-EVA: Yes. There's Lara, very clear; and Hole-in-the- Wall, you can see it.
LMP-EVA: Yes, that's Horatio. We're right on course, sir. There's a little depression we didn't talk about, though, between Horatio and Camelot. But it's a depression and not a blocky crater at all. As a matter of fact _ the total block population has changed out on the - once we get away from the rim of Camelot the block frequency is quite a bit smaller, it's down - maybe to only - less than 1 percent of the surface. 93A/39 Tape
CDR-EVA: Much easier driving with the Rover. Boy, ami glad we got that fender on. Very obvious that the Rover navigation - because of the blocks and because of the smaller ... craters, and very subtle type craters are in this area. LMP-E¥_ There are up to 2-meter, bright-halo, blocky craters - and that's blocky wall craters that may be incident rock rather than - I think it is rather than bedrock - in the rim area of Camelot.
LMP-EVA: Yes. That's Horatio.
CDR-EVA: Let me give another mark on the southern rim of Horatio. L_P-EVA Okay. The scarp looks very smooth from here - no obvious outcrops at this time. Don't seem to be penetrating to any bedrock in the area we're traversing now, just to the southeast of Horatio. Horatio has a blocky wall; however, the upper several tens of meters, probably, of rim look as if it's either mantled or composed of - the light- gray regolith material we've been driving on. The blocks do not come to the rim of Horatio.
CDR-EVA: - - know if I want to take you down there or not. Yes, Jack, hold on ... you down there. LMm-EVA Horatio has quite a different appearance than Camelot. It is - and that's the main one - the rims - the blocks do not get to the rim.
LMP-EVA: What's your roll? (L_ughter) I know it's not much, but it seems like a lot.
CDR-EVA: ... go around that crater.
LMP-EVA: Yes. The - It looks like - if Horatio is any gage, the rim thickness of maybe, and this is a wild guess, Bob, but maybe an average of 20 or 30 meters stratigraphic thickness lies above the cxposur_,s of the subfloor; exposures being blocks in the walt. And some of those blocks, again, are several meters, if not 5 to 10 meters in diameter. And they're concentrated on the west rim that I can see. There are very few blocks on the east - excuse me, the west wall - there are very few blocks on the east, north, and south walls of Horatio.
CC: Copy that, Jackm
CDR-EVA: There's a lot of - it's an undulating, hummocky traverse terrain in there, Jack.
CDR-EVA: These little craters make it bumpy; but, other than that, it's really smooth sailing.
LMP-EVA: That's right. This is what I sort of expected dark mantle to look like, rather than what we landed on. Not more than 1 percent of the sur- face, and that - and that percentage continues right over the rim crest of Horatio down onto the wall until you hit the big blocks.
LMP-EVA: Nos I don't have any - No, we're not at Bronte -
CC: Okay, 17. And how about an amps and a mobility - a speed reading.
CDR-EVA: I know they are. We're climbing, Jack. Because I've been full bore most of the time, and all I can get out of it is 10 clicks; and when I deceler- ate, she decelerates in a hurry. What's our next stop here, a sample at 3.9? 080/3.9.
LMP-EVA: A -
CDR-EVA: Well, I'm sitting on 080 right now and 2.6. I think we've got to add a little bit to that ...
LMP-EVA: Okay, Bob. The surface is not changing. We see no craters that seem to penetrate into bedrock out in here - that is with blocky rims, and that's quite a contrast to the area we sampled at sta- tion lA yesterday. I see - I cannot see in _¥ field of view any blocky-rim craters. There are slight craters with - with fragmental walls and rims, hut it looks like incident rock rather than the subfloor material.
CDR-EVA: Jack, can you see over there to the left? I'11 turn a little bit - on the - on the dark area of the South Massif where you get those - those im- pressed lineations. See them going from left upward to the right?
LMP-EVA: Yes. I see what you mean; right.
CDR-EVA: That's what I saw out my window.
LMP-EVA: Yes - lower left they - they go obliquely up the slope.
CDR-EVA: They're more like wrinkles, they're - linear wrinkles.
LMP-EVA: Yes. Crenulations, you might say, in the slope that look something like those I saw from orbit - looking in the shadowed area - at the edge of the shadows. Bob, we've seen craters as much as - 20 meters, maybe 30 meters in diameter without blocky rims.
LMP-EVA: The rim block population is not much dif - The rim block population is not much different than the average for the terrain in here.
CDR-EVA: Boy, I'11 tell you. If we can't recognize a change in that albedo when we get onto that white mantle, I'm going to be surprised.
LMP-EVA: Mark my words. Okay. The light mantle is just what Gene has said, it's a - that's it, right now - there are some very bright craters in it - they stand out, bright-haloed craters scattered over it, that - seem to be quite a bit brighter than any- thing we have out here on the dark mantle. See those blocks over there? That's the first dif- ferent colored blocks I've seen; they're sort of gray looking.
LMP-EVA: Over to the right a little bit.
CDR-EVA: Darker gray_ a little bit.
CDR-EVA: Do you want to get a photo as we go by?
LMP-EVA: Yes, let's - can you swing a little bit to the right?
LMP-EVA: That might be worth a - How's our time for traverse, Bob? Do we have time for an LRV sample?
CDR-EVA: Want one here?
LMP-EVA: Yes, let's get -
CC: Target of opportunity there, Jack.
LMP-EVA: Can you get -
LMP-EVA: Okay. Swing a little bit to the right now.
LMP-EVA: Right up across that little ray.
LMP-EVA: And I'11 try to get a chunk of whatever - okay, I want - keep going - keep going -
CDR-EVA: Look at that big ... - -
LMP-EVA: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
CDR-EVA: Okay. L_°-EVA Let me get the switch off.
CC: Okay. And, by and large, the back room is inter- ested in you guys pressing on to station 2.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we are. Just watch the batt - or the - LCRU.
LMP-EVA: Okay, Gene. That's a pretty big rock in there.
LMP-EVA: And, Bob, I think there's - -
CDR-EVA: Hold it. Hold it down farther - down. It's got quite a bit of dirt in it.
LMP-EVA: I think this is a sam - this is a block from a linear-strewn field of very irregular and jagged rocks that are - that are southwest of the - of a crater that's 10 to 15 meters in diameter. If - if - if - it looks like the material that may have formed the crater, and you can look at some of the pictures and make up your own decision.
LMP-EVA: Can you get it in there? Okay. You got it.
CDR-EVA: No, no. No, I didn't.
LMP-EVA: The bag's not open.
CDR-EVA: Well, okay. Yes, that's bad. L_°-EVA Can you push it in? Pull down.
CC: Okay. Copy that - -
CC: - - And, you got a frame count, Jack?
LMP-EVA: Oh, yes. Let me -
CDR-EVA: And I did get my locator here.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I got mine.
CC: Thank you, Jack, Gene.
LMP-EVA: Holy cow! I'd better slow down my picture taking.
CC: Roger, Jack. LMP-EYA Okay. We're in a little area where the fragment population may be up to 3 percent. It's getting a little more like what we saw around the LM. In fact, I would say it was comparable now.
CDR-EVA: I'm going down this slope and up the other side, Jack.
LMP-EVA: But nothing like station 1.
CC: Okay. Copy that. And the next planned Rover sample will be at a distance of 4.2; so, 080 and 4.2. And it will be in the light mantle if - -
LMP-EVA: Okay. We got it, Bob.
CC: - - that's the big reason for those numbers. Lb_-EVA Okay. It's in the first fall of light mantle, as I recall. Is that right?
CC: Roger; the thumb.
CDR-EVA: Okay: Bob. Your heading at 260 looks like it's right on_ by the way, from what I see on the skyline.
CC: Okay. And how's the low-gain antenna holding up?
LMP-EVA: Look at that ... - -
CDR-EVA: Well, I'm moving it, so I guess you're getting it.
CC: Yes, we're getting it - just checking.
LMP-EVA: Bob, I'm still - the blocks I see still seem to be the gabbro, except for that one sample we took, which I hope was what I thought it was -
CDR-EVA: Gee, it's blocky here.
LMP-EVA: Let's see - -
CDR-EVA: Oh_ that's a big crater. We got to get around here.
CDR-EVA: My gosh, is that big.
LMP-EVA: That's bigger than I expected.
CDR-EVA: Whoo! I got to go around this thing.
LMP-EVA: Yes, yes. There are some very - -
CDR-EVA: I got to go back here.
LMP-EVA: (Noise) Blocks, greater than the normal gabbro we've seen, that are very - have very large, egg-sized vesicles in them. 7_P-EVA Watch it - you got one on your right there - Here you go.
CDR-EVA: Yes. I got them.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I - don't mind me, Gene.
CDR-EVA: No_ No problem. That's alt right, because some of those down-Suns are hard to see. I want to get off this slope.
LMP-EVA: I wonder if I took a picture of that block deal? (Laughing) I hope I did. Getting to be so automatic that I'm not sure what I'm taking any more.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I 'm going to go through this niche between - on a high point in the saddle here.
LMP-EVA: Okay. How does it figure, Bob? I think we're just north of Bronte. Does that figure?
CDR-EVA: 0.8, 3.5, and 2.9; and we're on the north side o_' Bronte.
LMP-EVA: And it looks like Bronte has penetrated the dark mantle in here. It got the subfloor, but there's not an awful lot of blocks around the rim - There are just some small ones - compared to what we saw around - Watch it. Horatio and around C_aelot. Nothing, also, like we saw yesterday at station 1. Bob, that characteristic little dimple in the bottom of the craters is still with us, and it's invariably glass-lined in the fresh ones.
CC: Okay. Very good. seems to be glass agglutinates, if you will - that's holding the fragments in the bottom of the crater together. There's one on the side of an older crater. We're back into about a 1-percent coverage. I suspect that the reason we - our block population went up there was because of Bronte.
CDR-EVA: An awful lot of these .._ glass-lined little craters around.
LMP-EVA: Yes, and you notice, Gene, what I was saying about the little dimple in the bottom?
LMP-EVA: Watch the fresh ones, and they all have that little dimple as if that - You see, there's one right there.
CDR-EVA: Yes, right there.
LMP-EVA: Man, you can predict it.
CDR-EVA: Jack, you know, I think the white mantle is starting right over there. See on your right?
CDR-EVA: The place you can really see it is where it's re- flected off the slopes of the - or the - -
CDR-EVA: - - Of the cliffs out there, but I think - i hate to say it, but Charlie may be right.
LMP-EVA: Well, but you knows one thing that may distinguish it is the - the bright-halo craters are brighter.
CDR-EVA: But I can see it from here - - LMP-EV& Yes.
CDR-EVA: - - On the floor of the valley here.
CDR-EVA: On the scarp it really shows up.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Block population is unchanged; still appears to be the - when I can see large enough blocks - appears to be the gabbro, although there's not as - not as much to look at now in terms of blocks. The surface characteristics have not changed. There are no craters that we see that are bringing up clear, blocky rims. There's a - most of the fresh craters have incident rock around them. The craters are the same size. They are older and more s_dued. That incident rock is apparently broken down. I suspect a small zapping breaks that down fairly quickly.
CC: 0kay_ 17. Copy that. You still making about 9 to 1t kilometers?
CDR-EVA: Nos sir. I_ve been making from 10 to i2, Bob, - mostly 12.
CC: Okay. Can you give me a reading on the amps this time, Geno.
CDR-EVA: Okay. You're getting - Stand by. I've got a little navigating to do.
CC: Okay; standing by.
CC: Okay. How about amps and not amp-hours?
CDR-EVA: ... up-and-down, hummocky terrain, I think with - Oh, I'm sorry.
LMP-EVA: Watch your - you got a hole in front of you.
LMP-EVA: Oh. There you go. Spun out a little bit.
CDR-EVA: Here, let me get up here.
LMP-EVA: Good vehicle you got here.
CDR-EVA: Yes. It takes a little getting used to, though. L_-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA: I'm not sure I want to go through many of those.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Bob. I'11 give you an amp reading as soon as I can. Just stand by for it.
CC: All right. There's no hurry. No hurry.
LMP-EVA: Would you believe my camera handle's coming off?
CDR-EVA: The terrain gets a lot more locally hummocky with some - with some well-rounded rims but very - very large-aspect-ratio craters, which you got to get around in here - in the 4- or 5-meter size.
CDR-EVA: See that on your right?
CDR-EVA: That's it_ there's not going to be that much dif- ference.
CDR-EVA: Not going to be that much difference, but - look where you're going.
LMP-EVA: I got to watch I don't lose my camera. It's - come loose.
CDR-EVA: See, now you can look where we're going to come u_ on the white mantle. It's dusted with that light - light - look at it.
CDR-EVA: We're only 100 meters from the light mantle.
LMP-EVA: Well - -
CC: Okay. How about giving us the range and bearing when you get to it.
CDR-EVA: Look at - look at this crater in here. We're coming right up on it now. L_P-EVA Yes. There certainly is a change in the general albedo, particularly in the craters. The craters are much brighter in their walls than we've seen before.
CDR-EVA: Yes. That's a -
LMP-EVA: Although there still is a brown - a light gray dusting over the top of it in here, but it's clearly different - no question about that.
CDR-EVA: You can't see the contact as you cross it but we're just - we know we're coming into something lighter - You can - obviously see it.
LMP-EVA: Yes. We ought to sample the rim of one of these craters when we get our LRV sample, because that's what's distinctly lighter.
CC: How about a range and bearing, guys?
CC: Copy the 3.8.
LMP-EVA: No, right to the right there. Right here - that light stuff. See the big crater here - -
CDR-EVA: Yes. T_MP-EVA - - and the light material right on the rim?
CDR-EVA: Yes. I can get there. But I'm going to have to not give you much of a turn because it's - -
LMP-EVA: That's all right. I got the pictures. Now, if you can swing to the left a little bit and then back - whoa. Now, back right. Okay. Hope my camera stays on there.
CDR-EVA: You like that?
LMP-EVA: _oa. Yes. Whoa, whoa.
CDR-EVA: We are in the light mantle. It's not a contrasting light like you might expect, or like we're looking at on the scarp as the Sun shines on it, but I don't think there's any question.
LMP-EVA: Yes. The craters are definite - that penetrate into it are definitely different. However, the surface texture is unchanged. There may be fewer blocks.
CC: Copy that. And frame time, Jack?
CDR-EVA: Hold your bag? We don't want to lose it.
CDR-EVA: Hold it up.
CDR-EVA: Is it in? Okay. Oops, that bag won't stay open. _P-EVA Yes. It will after we get a couple of samples in there. Okay; my locator.
CDR-EVA: And my locator.
LMP-EVA: I hope I don't lose my camera.
CDR-EVA: I can't reach it, or I'd help you.
LMP-EVA: I guess I never - - I guess I didn't do what I wanted to do and that's get that thing really cinched down.
CDR-EVA: Boy, Bob, one of the remarkable things is the Sun-angle difference on that light mantle when you're looking at the slopes of the Scarp versus what we're on. I hate to use a familiar te_, but my impression right here is there is more of a raindrop influence than back at the LM, or ii1 the darker mantle.
LMP-EVA: Yes. Might - might by.
CDR-EVA: I think so.
LMP-EVA: I think the big thing is, though, that each one of these little craters is much light - much more lightly colored. But we're still not - there's no crater in view that does - that has a blocky rim. There's fragmental rims based on, almost certainly, incident rock, but no blocky rims.
CDR-EVA: You know, one of the reasons those craters look lighter is because of their Sun angle. Walls of some of these little craters - It's the same material we're driving on, I'11 bet. Yes_ there is incident rock right there, Jack, you're right.
LMP-EVA: The fragment population is certainly less than 1 percent in here.
CDR-EVA: Yes. L_-EVA Right now. V_en I say fragments, I'm talking about rocks that are - are greater than a centimeter in grain size.
CDR-EVA: You know, it may be me, Bob; but it - it also seems to be a little bit more difficult to drive down-Sun in this area. LMi_-EVA Yes, I think it is brighter, Geno. I was thinking that a minute ago, but it's hard to make a - I think your normal albedo is - is greater. Here's some rocks now starting ... - -
CDR-EVA: And the little craters still have the central pits.
LMP-EVA: Yes, there's a few.
LMP-EVA: Yes. There're a few blocks. They still - they still look like the gabbro_ though. Hard to tell.
CDR-EVA: Well, a couple of them looked to me like they had some very light *** crystals in them. See that?
LMP-EVA: I'm afraid those are zap pits.
CDR-EVA: They could be.
LMP-EVA: I got - I think I've been fooled by that, too_ and that's why I estimated the ... time.
CDR-EVA: I just want to keep you out of those slopes, and I'11 tell you, I get you in some to - -
LMP-EVA: That's all right.
CDR-EVA: - - keeping you out of them.
CDR-EVA: I got to get around that slope. _-EVA Yes. Okay. You still got Hole-in-the-Wall picked out over there, don't you?
CDR-EVA: Yes, I got it. I'm just - - And, I'm trying to keep corem with them as I'm turning here. L_°-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA: And, I've been keeping the thing on. I don't know if they're reading us, but I've been moving it.
CC: Reading you loud and clear, _ys.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Looking up on the South Massif, we've got real good views of the block-strewn fields. There's one tha% - there seems to be two dominant colora- tions of the rock. The light-colored ones, very - very light tan and to white, and then there are the blue-gray rocks. There's one major outcrop of blue gray about a sixth of the way down the slope, the center of the field of view we have; and it looks very much like similar blue-gray l'oek_ right at the crest, the highest point from our vantage point. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CMP: Okay, Robert. I guess the big thing I want to report from the back side on this one here is that I took another look at the - the Cloverleaf in Aitken, with the binocs, and that southern, domical crater of the Cloverleaf - it has a breach on the east - east side of it. It - I can't tell - There's - there's a flow - In other words, the domieal structures, themselves, are part of a flow material that is partially filled up the breach. In other words, the breach has either flowed into that little domical structure before the domes were built, or else all of that stuff that's in the mare floor has flown out of that domical structure before the domes came in. In other words, the domical structures, themselves, are different time relationship to the floor, itself. They are - are younger than the floor, itself.
CC: Roger. We copy there, Ron.
CC: That's good data on Aitken there, Ron. Those color differences any - on any of these things - that color is one of the most important things you can give us. We'11 be all ears for that.
CMP: Okay. I'11 try to - The trouble with colors, I'm finding out, is that - it's sure a function of the Sun angle as to what color it appears to your eye.
CC: Roger. We can believe that. We just - we'11 - - CMl° ... passes. Yes.
CC: Ron, it's time for PAN CAMERA T-stop time. CP_ Okay. Thank you. ***teen 24 -
CMP: it's been about 30 - something.
CC: That's fine. No problem.
CC: Ron, if you start your Picard orbital science photos on time, I'11 be glad to call you to f/5.6 f/4, change to and the change to if you want.
CC: Okay, Ron. You can go PAN C_ERA, OFF at this time.
CMP: Okay. PAN CAMERA POWER is -
CMP: That's Conder - Condorsay or Condorcet, or whatever you want to call it, there. Condorcet Hotel is the one that has got that diamond-shaped fill down in the - in the floor.
CC: Roger. Understand. Condorcet Hotel.
CMP: Condor - Condorcet Alfa - it's either got a land- slide - I'11 get a picture of that the next time with - with the other frame, but it's either got a landslide on it, or it's had a - And it doesn't look like a crater on the side of the wall, on the northwest wall of the crater.
CC: Okay. We copy that. Northwest wall of Condorcet A.
CMP: That's a - the area is oval or ellipse shape. Of course, the top of the ellipse is toward the top of the crater. And it looks like it's - almost gets a flow out of the bottom of the ellipse, which is about a fourth of the way up from the bottom of the crater.
CC: Ron, can you give me a scale on the size of that flow, as compared to the rest of the crater?
CMP: Uhhh. The - the hole or the slope or the slide, or whatever you want to call it, down through there, is maybe one-eighth of the crater diameter. And the floor area is only just a real small por- tion of one-eighth size. It's a ... - -
CC: You seeing any lineaments in the area? Any linea- ments in the area?
CMP: Yes. There was some lineaments on the area - i_ the area; and again, they're vertical-type linea- ments or lineations kind of like the - the downslope - operations of most ... craters.
CC: Roger° You can start at - you're just about 30 seconds from starting on Picard. And like you said on the map_ you go up - you go up Picard, after you start up Picard X_ there_ and you go on up through Picard and Yerkes and that - -
CC: - - that front there, up at Yerkes' area. That's the Yerkes. Right above there is where you change to f/11.
CMP: Okay. Okay_ here we go.
CC: If you'11 gi_e me kind of a call at what you're aiming at_ like Picard X and Picard, I can give you a call on those f_stops_ Rono
CMP: Okay. I just passea Picard X_ and then the one west of that. *** what it was° The next - about half the size of Picard X_ Hey, does this go right through Picard? Or south of it?
CC: No, it goes right throug_ dead center of Picard.
CMP: Okay. We_ii get it.
CC: Roger. We hope so_ _oo.
CMP: There's biac_ material - now - get on up here - you get on up here_ the darker tannish-gray material covers essentially from the east all the way around to the south. It goes outside the rim as well as inside the rim_ it drapes over the rim. That can't be a shadow effect°
CC: Have you taken Picard yet, Ron?
CMP: Just now. Just one more, and I'11 be through with Picard. Change to what?
CC: No_ not yet. You don't change it until you get on the other side of Yerkes, up there. Your path goes directly between Yerkes and ... - - f/11.
CMP: Okay. Let me go to
CC: No. Don't change to f/11 until you're at Yerkes.
CMP: Yes, okay. Until I get to the other side of Yerkes.
CMP: I can still see those dark halo craters down there. I'm going to have to look at them with the binocs sometime.
CC: Okay. When you're at Yerkes there, you want to switch to f/11. Just - -
CC: - - just on the other side of Yerkes.
CC: And looking west_ you'11 go right through Proclus.
CMP: Now, what comes after Proclus?
CMP: It's sure easy to see why that - ray excluded zone shows up on the pictures because, to me, it's - it's a tan Sculptured Hill-type material - where - in the ray excluded zone of Proclus.
CC: Okay_ Ron. The - this pass continues and you change to 5.6 up there at Proclus D at the mare/ highland contact at Proclus - up around Proclus and Franz.
CC: Okay_ You go right across the Mare - Maraldi M and Maraldi D, and across Vitruvius A and Vitruvius.
CMP: Oh. Okay. it's a little closer in, then.
CMP: ._.
CC: - - on that contact_ the mare to the highlands is where you go to f/4. f/4. CMl° At - Okay, Vitruvius? Yes, okay; You know, if you can look up on your map, it looks like there's kind of a subdued ... almost submerged crater, between - I mean Just east of Vitruvius A. And that - that domical mounds that are sticking up around there are the same type of structures as Maraldi Gamma. And that's what lead me to believe that - you know - it's just some old jumbled-up-type stuff that was here before the mare.
CMP: That has a completely - it has a completely dif- ferent - texture to it than the domical structures of Alt ken.
CC: Okay. Have you gotten up over, vertical over Vitruvius? If you are, that's where you go to f/4.
CMP: Not quite. I'm in Vitruvius A, right now.
CC: Okay. Good show. And
CMP: I just took a peak at it with the binocs and - 1/250. Let's see, I'm 5.6 at And that's a dif- ferent type of material. It looks like it's a - it almost has to be a slump-type of operation. Some- how, it gets piled up down in the middle. But they're a smoother, more subdued type of domical structures than the ones in Aitken. Okay. Switch- ing to f/4 - -
CC: Roger; f/4 - - c_ - - 1/250.
CC: Your track goes right across the mare - the mare there between Tranquillity and Serenity - right across Dawes_ and ends at Just to the east and north of Plinius. On that - -
CC: - - that appears to be the boundary between Tranquillity and Serenity.
CMP: No, when I take a look at it from this angle, you even get a different - the - the ejecta from Plinius kind of covers up the rilles and the annulus around Serenitatis.
CC: But there is a color difference between Serenivy and Tranquillitatis_ there?
CMP: Yes. There's a definite color difference between Tra - and it almost looks like - If you could stand on color alone, the color from Tranquiliitatis extends on over, and covers into - you know, kind of drapes over the edge and covers up part Serenity.
CC: Okay. We got that. Well, that should be all of your photos there, on that pass, Ron.
CMP: Oh, okay. (Laughter)
CC: And, Ron, before we get into the visual, here, we'd like HIGH GAIN, AUTO.
CC: And, can you give me - -
CMP: ... away from the window_ here.
CC: - - a magazine report on that two pictures? C_ Okay. Wetre magazine Lima Lima. And it's 129.
CMP: Yes, we're at the same Sun angle, and there's no doubt about it from Tac_uet on up to Mel something or other, there's a group of small rilles in there, and those rilles have got ejected material_ around and up and over the rilles. And not - not impact- type ejecta. It's got to be a volcanic ejecta of some kind up and around there. It's a dark broom - a darker brown, than the tan of Serenitatis.
CC: Roger. You're referring to the Menulus [sic] rilles, there, right to the west of Tacquet, right? That's to the west of Tacquet? Still, it looks like it's in the Serenitatis - Serenitatis Basin, right on the edge of it.
CMP: And then they kind of st - they stop just even with Mel whatever it is. (Laughter) Malinius or something like that.
CC: Not Melinius or Menelaus? Pick your pick.
CMP: It disappeared. I couldn't - couldn't see that one.
CMP: Take a look the next time around.
CC: That was my question. I was just curious.
CMP: Yes. I know it shows it on the map there, and I haven't really got a good - a good clear picture of a ray, yet.
CC: I'm going to be more interested to see it - -
CMP: I'11 look for it for sure the next time.
CC: - - I want to - more interested to see if you can see the alleged crater Arabia on this next pass.
CMP: (Laughter) I've been looking for that every pass. And - there's a lot of depressions - and ridges and - hills around there. It's hard to - see, you don't really get a big picture view of it. You get a little piece of it at a time. And I think, in order to really con - convince yourself that you got something there, you're going to have to get - get off - away from it. And - -
CMP: *** D-Caldera is sure a depression. Like nothing I've ever seen before.
CC: Got you. You're going to get a chance to get some pictures of that next - next rev. CMl° Next rev? Okay, they ought to be good ones be- cause the Sun angle is going to be pretty good. But, at this point, you get a dark tan, kind of a mare-type material - it's in mare-type materials. And then it's a light gray down in the D-Caldera itself. Sure looks like a "D" all right. But it's a light gray down in there. And then it's got bumps that stick up: and the bumps themselves are - I want to look at it again for sure. But I get the impression the bumps, themselves, are the light tan material.
CMP: Whereas, down - Yes_ the bumps are light tan. And down between the bumps that are down in the Caldera_ it looks like a rough - real rough blocky - gray material.
CMP: Bob, I hope you're keeping me honest on the Flight Plan. I got my head out the window. I can't follow the Flight Plan.
CC: Affirmative. Ail you got is, in about 4 minutes, or 3 minutes, now, you pick up orbital science visuals on Copernicus. And we'11 just stay with you on those orb science visuals right through Reiner Gamma. And at 143:12, you've got a rather rapid time, you might want to quit early. You got the LOI [sic] canister change. Then you got a P52. So, your choice on that. I'11 call you right at 143:12_ if that's what you want.
CC: Yes, okay. We'11 concur on that; but just don'V forget it. CMl° Okay.
CC: Ron, you're coming up on Copernicus; I might read you some of these questions. One of them was, "Study the floor of Copernicus, and compare its material to that on the walled terraces." The other one is_ "When viewed from the opposite di- rection, is there an extension of the structure in the middle central peak?" I guess that we refer to that as what might be a dike in that middle central peak. And "What is the nature of that structure?"
CMP: Okay. I think those things are going to be kind of hard to see. But we'11 try.
CC: The back room would like you to kind of concen- trate on looking on that dike, if it is at all possible, Ron. Even if you have to use - -
CC: - - even if you have to use the binoculars. CMl° - - get the ole binocs, here. Okay.
CMP: 400 meters. Okay. CM_ Is this Eratosthenes I'm passing over now? I hope.
CC: Yes. You should be just about over Eratosthenes right now.
CC: Roger. CM]
P: And you can't see anything out the window. CMl° Ahhhhhh, there's Copernicus.
CMP: And I'11 tell you what. I think we - need more daylight (laughter).
CC: Kind of tough, huh?
CMP: Yes, especially the binocs cut off - they must cut off too much light or something.
CC: Okay, we understand that. Might just stick with the naked eye then and do the best you can, I guess.