Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR: Okay, we'11 try to put it in the center of the three craters to get all three - well, to get whatever stratigraphy we have here. And the last fillets - picture, shadow 9 o'clock - was 18.
CDR: ©k_y. And since I've already taken a couple of pistures of the MET tracks, I won't do any more cf that here, and probably won't again unless we They're - see some difference in Zhese tracks. they're expect, fairly what you might because they're smooth; they're well packed and vary in depth only as a function of the - of the surface tension.
LMP: Fredo, I've left the LPM, returning to the MET. Had a little trouble with it that time. The bubble is tangent on the east side of - of the center ring.
CC: Okay. On the eas_ side. Let me know when you get there.
LMP: I m at the MET.
CDR: Shay, i'11 set up for the double core, here.
LMP: Okay, I'11 be with you in a second. I have a pan to take, and I'11 be right with you. Now be care- ful with the Velcro on the tongue. You can see it came off, except for one batch.
CDR: God damn. Why don't we just - ... it's about the right size.
LMP: It'11 go in that outer pocket fine. I'11 carry it - one of us can carry it when we're going between stops - -
CDR: It won't go down that way. Also, Lo-millimeter M_.
CDR: Okay. Core tubes.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Fredo. You about ready?
CC: Okay, 1 minute. You go ahead.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Y - This is high scale - Y is 1.C. I'm sorry. X is 1.0; Y is 8.1; Z is 6.6. Secon_ set: X is 1.0_ Y is 8.1; Z is 6.6. _hir_ set: × is 1.0: Y, 8.1; Z is 6.65. Okay?
CC: Roger, Ed. And I assume all of those were hi_i_ scale a_ain.
LMP: Beg your pardon? Those were all high scale. '2hat's affirm.
CC: Okay. We got them. n's_ber
CDR: Okay. _ne bottom core tube wil_ be _, no tab. Tolg core tube will be n'_m_er 3, no tab.
CC: Roger, Al. Top, number 3, no t_b; bottom, n'mv- ber 2, no tab.
UNKNOWN: That is correct.
LMP: Okay. I need a pair of tongs -
CC: And have you started reeling it up yet, Ea? NFID ENT.I.
LMP: I'm starting that right now, Fred. The electronics are in the box, and I'm - -
CC: Yes. I just - -
LMP: *** up the reel now.
UNKNOWN: Oh, no.
CDR: *** the mazter?
LMP: This is a can cf worms.
CC: You're having some problem reeling it in there, Ed?
LMP: Yes. An awful lot of problem with it, Fred. The set in the cable is so much that if I ever let go of the handle, it winds down about three or four turns on me; and I have to - at least - then I have to take it back out. And the cable is all bunched up and curled out here. It's - I'm not sure I'm going to get wound or not.
LMP: *** a different method of holding it.
CDR: Okay, Houstcn. A couple of quick stereos in the locater of the core tube as it's about to be driven, and the locater of the M_ is in the background.
LMP: Okay, Fredo. Z got the LPM reel reeled in just enoagh to keep it off the ground. I'm trailing a can of spaghetti here.
CC: Okay, Ed.
LMP: Al, you haven'z taken a pan, have you?
LMP: Okay. I'm starting with the pan.
CC: Okay. Just in the way of bookkeeping, we need the double core and the pan and a sample.
CDR: Okay, Houston. We got almost two complete - tubes here, about one and seven-eighths tubes, I would say.
LMP: Okay, Houston. The pan is complsted, and I took it from the rim of a - old crater with fresh crater right in the bottom of it, and several small ones - small ones around it.
UNKNOWN: Yes. That's a pretty blocky one, that new one. i think if we take samples from right along that rim there, you'd probably get some of that from the bottom.
LMP: *** better give them map coordinates ... - -
CC: Okay. We copied, A1 and Ed.
CDR: Okay. And the core bit, just for the fun of it, is going in bag 2-November.
LMP: We need a DAC.
CC: And, Al, they'd like a description of the surface where you drove the core tube.
CDR: Okay, Fred. Nothing, but it's titlesr_me textured pattern of which we spoke coming up in this traverse.
LMP: Where's ou_- color chart?
CDR: Here yo'a go. Did you read the core tip *** 2-November, Fred? CONFIDENTIAL,,,,
CC: Roge:_, Al. We've got that, and for your information, we're about 5 minutes behind in the total time :Line, for departing A.
CDR: Okay. Continuir_ - our description of the surface, it _ppears to be a scat%ered population of very small blocks, some of which Ed is going to photo- graph here, and his documented sample. I believe they came from zhe crater to the north of the sampling sites. Other than that, the - that little core-sample site is not uni$_e to the traverse, so far. The first core went in fairly easily. I had some *** difficulty with the last core.
CDR: Get Zhat by yourself?
LMP: And,. Houston, the rock I'm sampling is a - seems to be a fairly typical one of this little crater - multiple crater that we're working around, right now, near A; and it's goirg into the bag 3-November.
CC: Roger, Ed. Copy 3-November.
LMP: Ocps. It's breaking apart on me as I pick it up. I'11 try to get most of the pieces.
CC: *** Ed. And *** we need to move on here to B; and before we depart A, we're going to need an HU[U check.
CDR: Ok_F. This is Al's 5MI3 reading 3.75; oxygen is reading 71; I have no flags; I'm on MIN cooling; and I'm comfortable.
LMP: Al.
LMP: Can you hand me another baggy?
LMP: Houston, I can't get all of this sample in 3-N. Consequently, it will go into 3-N and the next one. It looked like it was fractured; and when I picked it up, it fractured into about four pieces.
CDR: Okay. Now head on up the hill 'iloB.
CC: Okay. And we still need an _U cheek from yo_, Ed.
LMP: Okay, Fredo. Give it to you in a minute.
UNKNOWN: Can you catch up with me all right?
LMP: Yes, I'11 catch up. Go ahead.
CDR: Okay. A1 is heading up with th_ MET_. From A, we go down into a valley. We drop down a - a fairly consistent slope of approximately, oh, 8 to 10 de- grees. The texture, here again, is pretty much the same on the surface. The basic regolith, of course is - of comrse, is the fine material which is now, at this particular Sun angle, kind of a grayish _rown, with the light pebbles on the sur- face making the raindrop - the small pebbles on the surface making the raindrop pattern.
LMP: And, Houston, I'm - I'm treading along behini A1 now, starting to catch up with him. It - it hasn't been described for you before; the MET tracks make a very smooth pattern in the - in the surface, reminiscent of - of driving a tractor through a plowed field. It smooths it out and makes a very smooth, distinct pattern, and probably, oh, a quarter of an inch deep, no more.
LMP: And it leaves gaps every now and then as it _cunces.
CDR: Think you've found B? JCONFIDENTI
LMP: Yes. It's this - this big crater over here, isn't it?
CDR: It's way up the hill.
CDR: I think it's up the hill.
CDR: Oh, that's right. B is the crater we go - This is the crater we go by on the way to B.
CDR: Okay, Houston. I'm locking for a contact somewhere in here, but it's not apparent at this point. Sur- face texture seems to be very much the same; *** the standpoint of *** bearing properties, it's still about the same softness; and it still has the same raindrop pattern.
LMP: Oh, Fredo. You wanted a mi check from me. I'm at 3.7, going 67 percent. I'm on MIN cooling; no flaEs.
LMP: And continuing the description a little bit, Houston. The - Trying - trying to think of an adequate de- scription or comparison to something we've already seen, but I don't think there is one. Incidentally, I see a string of craters down to the south - a string of boulders to the south of us that may prove to be a ray pattern as we - from Cone. And I observe, as we get closer to the - to Cone, the number of large boulders is increasing. We're going to go past some here in a couple of minutes - near a - about a 20-foot-wide, fairly fresh crater. The boulders - a dozen of them or so - are 4 or 5 feet in diameter. Lot of filleting around them.
CC: Ro_er, Ed.
CDR: Okay. Let's see if we can find this -
LMP: This crater's the one, I think, Al. It's halfway between A and B, isn't it?
CDR: Yes, I think so. This little - -
LMP: Can you see the boulders off to the side there on the map?
CDR: No, they don't show very well. i think -
LMP: Ah_ You should be able to spot that little chain of craters Just to the south of it. On the map - if that - if that's where we think we are.
CDR: Ed, I donmt see any craters right: there.
LMP: Kind of small.
CDR: That will make us right here, hu_z?
CDR: There's nc, big one to go with it. A sharp one ts go with it. This is that one right up there. Hsw about that?
LMP: Yes. Let's take a look.
CDR: That's probably Weird right up there. We're pr3b- , ably about even with Weird right now, although we can't see it on the ridge.
LMP: That's Weird, that big one right sver there, _1.
CDR: Yes, that's what I say. I think B is that deep crater right directly ahead of us, Ed.
LMP: Nc, I disagree. I think - See that crater right over there we came by? To the south, the big cne?
LMP: I think this is the crater that's at - that's at B. I think this boulder field, we can see it here, if you look. $,ONFIDENTIA
CDR: !this crater right here?
LMP: Yes. Yes, we have to he considerably past Weird.
CDR: Not even halfway to the - to the rim of Cone yet.
LMP: Yes, this place all looks alike out here.
CDR: Well, let's go on ahead - -
CC: And, A1 and Ed. I don't - Yes. I don't think you have to worry too much about the exact position of site B. If you're - it appears you're getting close to the general area, that should be good enough on
LMP: Okay. I think we're very close to it. i think this crater we Just went by is probably it, but it's; very hard to tell_ Fredo. I don't see any- thir_ else that might be it, unless it's the next crater up. Al, I've spotted it. That crater - next crater up is this one right here.
CDR: Which way are you pointing?
CDR: Where at?
LMP: Right behind you. That crater is that crater right up there. That crater is the crater over to the left of it.
CDR: %there do you think B is?
LMP: I think B's the one we just passed, back there where we were %alking.
LMP: And here's the little - Aha, it is[ Here's the little double crater right beside it. Look here. See, there's t:hat crater; see, there's the little double crater; it's right there in front of you.
CDR: 0ks_, let's go sample B.
LMP: Let's sample B.
CC: Okay. And, A1 and Ed, this is a grab sample at B, and we need the panorama. And while someone is doing that, we can get our site description.
CDR: I'11 get a pan, then.
LMP: Okay. And while A1 takes the _:an, I'11 go ahead and give you a site description. The area here is an area of considerably more boulders, a larger boulder field, more numerous boulders than we've seen in the past. We've just come into it as we - as we approached B from A. Now, there are - _here were boulders to the north of us; we previously talked of boulders to the north; and, doggone it, they may turn out to be a ray pattern. It i©_ks suspiciously like - like one. However, where we are now, we're about on the edge of a genera] boulder population lining the flank of Cone Crater. Now, they're not too numerous at this poina. They're somewhat patchy. There's a lot of tham buried, half buried, a few of the smaller ones sitting oa the surface. There are - these boulders are fiiletei, and we'11 have to sample that filleting later. The surface texture - the fine is very much - appears very much the same as what we've been walking on all along. And about the only difference we can see is probably a larger number of smaller craters, i say probably; they're so numerous, unless you really make a population count, you can't tell. A large - I'm guessing, a larger number sf craters - _rohably secondaries from Cone, perhaps- and certainly a larger number of boulders lying around. Now, most of these boulders are rounded; there are a few angular ones; there are a few rocks with angulars but - angularities - but, by and large, you can see edges that have been chipped off, indicating the beginning of a smoothing process. And some of thegn are far beyond the beginning of smoothing. They're - they're worn down pretty well And most of the rough edges are where they have frastured aha per- haps turned over. Most of them appear to be along fractures of where other rocks are sitting near them that might have once been a part of _hat boul- der. Out. CONFIDENTIAty
CC: Roger, Ed. And has A1 got the grab sample completed now?
LMP: He's - -
CDR: I'm grabbing it now.
LMP: - - grabbing it now.
CDR: Houston, give you a quick stereo on it.
CC: Okay. And we need the fine count before departing B; and, right now, we're about 15 minutes behind in the time line.
LMP: Okay. Fredo, we expect we're going to fall behind you; there's no way we can help it. We'11 pick it up ]later.
CDR: Well, we'11 see about that.
CDR: 0ka;_. Grab sample from the west rim of Bravo Crater, bag 5-November.
LMP: And, Fredc, to complete this description - -
CC: *** A1 - -
LMP: - - We are standing on a fairly high point - well, not really on a high point, about halfway up the slope. To our north and slightly to the west of us seams to be the low point in this area. It's surrounded by a rim that's reminiscent of a very, very old crater. Topography doesn't show up on the map, but indeed is there. About 500 yards to the north and - and west is the lowest point that I can see in this area. Okay, you ready to press on?
CDR: As soon as I get my handle screwed back on here.
LMP: Okay, the next stop is the top of Cone. Let's get everything secured for that trip.
CDR: Okay, Houston- -
CC: Okay. And we'd like the frame count before you depart.
CDR: Yes, you've got a fra_ne ccunt of 32 from Al.
LMP: And 29 from Ed.
CC: Roger; 3h and 29.
CDR: Handle was loose.
UNKNOWN: Handle work loose for you?
LMP: Okay. I've got the MET.
CDR: Okay. You want to go first and I'11 folicw.
LMP: Okay. To the top of Cone Crater. We're supposed to -
UNKNOWN: *** we're starting the clock - -
CDR: We could go almost to the east here and then u_ - -
CDR: - - by Flank.
LMP: East, a l__tle bit to the - -
CDR: See? See_ there's Flank u_ there. the far side of it.
CDR: Right, so we probably ought to h_ad directly fcr Flank and on up from there. JJONFIDENTtAW
CDR: Ok_r, and -
LMP: Houston, as we go across here, this ground is - Al's probably previously described it_ but it's ve_f undulating. I would suspect that there is not 10 yards, at the most, between what were once old craters. They are, most of them, worn down 9 but the surface is continuously undulating. There's hardly a level spot anywhere.
LMP: Lots of - As we come on up toward Cone, we're getting to seeing lots more buried rocks, bigger rocks.
CDR: We're keeping our eyes open for a contact here. But I guess the Sun angle makes it very difficult to see. However, I expect that by the time we get a little closer up to Flank - Let me pull it fora while.
LMP: I have to shift hands. I'm good.
CDR: Oks_. By the time we get a little closer up to Flank, we might find some kind of a contact. The e_e of Cone Crater to the north is very apparent, as we expected that it would be. It stretches off into the distance and meets with the far horizon.
LMP: Fredo, I'm trying to find something distinctive to say about some of these craters we're going by, and it's very hard to do so. They're all smooth- walled except the very freshest one; and we're coming by a w_ry fresh one now, which is rubbtely on the in - Hey! It may even - That has some pretty good chunks of rubble on the inside. This is about the freshest crater this size we've seen, Al.
CDR: That's correct. This is a very fresh crater. It's about ... it's about opposite to the crater at stop E. It's a crater about 20 meters in diame- ter and about 2 meters deep, and I'11 get a quick - rcck from the side.
LMP: Very soft, too. A1 Just dropped dcwn on a knee - -
LMP: - - to pick up a rock, and he went - went in ! or 4 inches. Need some help, Al?
CDR: Yes, I think so. I can't get any.
UNKNOWN: Okay. Come on, give me your hand.
CDR: Wait a minute; I got it now. Okay.
LMP: Okay. Come on up.
CDR: Okay (grunt). Thank you.
LMP: You're on your feet.
UNKNOWN: Okay. That's Just a quick hand sample from _he side of that crater.
UNKNOWN: Do you think you're following us and know ahou% where we are, Fredo?
CDR: That's going in bag - -
CC: Well, the board, I think, is - -
CDR: Say, that's good. And - -
CC: - - looking about halfway between 3 and E.
CDR: Roger. And ...
UNKNOWN: Yes. And we're starting uphill now. Climb's fairly gentle at this point, but it's definitely uphill.
LMP: Okay, baby!
UNKNOWN: Almost turned, didn't it?
CDR: Yes Now that grab sample from the west rim of the crater, *** described as blocky, is in bag 6.
CC: Roger, Al. Bag 6.
CDR: Okay, the going is still very smooth as far as the - the area that we're able to pick out. Of co_urse, we're tracing a kind of sinuous course hers, staying out of the craters.
LMP: And, Fredo, we're - to help further locate us, if ycu can, we're going by two very - well, fairly fresh craters. I don't think quite as fresh as the one we were Just talking about. The eastmost one is fresher than - The westmost one is the freshest. They're separated about 75 to 100 feet, and they're about 25 to 30 feet across and 5 or 6 feet deep - 5 feet deep, I guess. The westmost one has got small blocks in it. The eastmost one is very smooth (heavy breathing).
CC: Roger, Ed. And you described the blocks there a couple of times now. I think you used the term "rubble." By that, I assume you implied they were Just lying loose, Just nothing really in place.
LMP: I'm not sure that's quite true, Fred. Some of it looked like stuff that belonged there, that had not; fallen there.
CDR: There's a lot of glass in that rock, Ed.
UNKNOWN: Yes. Oh, there sure is. It looked like - Some of that so-called rubble looked like it had - might. be the - the residual of an impact Just lying in the bottom. And, Houston, we're passing a rock mu:h too big to pick up. There's a whale of a lot of glass in it.
CDR: It was splattered with glass.
CC: Roger. About how big is it?
LMP: It's about a foot and a half, 2-footer - yes, about a foot and a half across.
CDR: That was a glass splatter, Fred.
CC: Roger, id. And we copy the glass.
LMP: And, I'm going on MEDIUM cooling for a minute.
CC: Okay. And, A1 and Ed, why don't we take a little rest here for a minute; and we'd like another camera count, too.
CDR: Take a what?
LMP: We haven't taken any pictures s_nce the las_ one, I don't think.
CDR: Okay. We'11 slow down the traverse here. Okay. Should be Flank right here, Ed.
CDR: Should be Flank right over here
LMP: Just out of sight, you mean?
CDR: Right - Yes, right there.
LMP: Dh. Let's go over and see.
UNKNOWN: Okay, A1 and Ed. I assume you're on the move now and heading toward Flank. Is t_:at correct?
LMP: That's correct. Heading toward where we think Flank is. I'11 pull for a while_ Al.
CDR: That's okay. I got it for a while.
UNKNOWN: Why don't we pull up beside this big crater?
UNKNOWN: Take a break, get the map_ and see if we can find out exactly where we are. Press on from there. This one should be distinctive enough. 'CONFIDENTIA
CC: And **# get _ver here and see if we can find the -
CDR: Pull it up on a little more level ground.
LMP: Okay. Give you a push.
CDR: Okay, there we are. Level?
UNKNOWN: That old LM looks like it's got a flat over there, the way it's leaning.
LMP: Just, talking. Never mind.
CDR: Okay, Houston. The pan is complete on magazine - magazine Lima-Lima. Frame count is 57.
CDR: You're breaking up, Fred.
CDR: *** reading him? Ed, are you reading?
LMP: Yes, I read.
CDR: Read him?
LMP: I can't read Fred, no.
LMP: Fredo, you're breaking up completely .... state- merit.
CDR: (sigh) Start on up toward the rim?
LMP: Yes. Just 1 second, though. I think I got i%; just a minute.
CDR: Okay, I'11 head on out.
LMP: Fredo, can you read? Now I'm getting the feedback from my own voice.
CDR: Okay. Ed, I'm coming through. Do
UNKNOWN: Okay. you want me to pull awhile, Al?
CDR: No, that's all right.
LMP: I can't really spot this - this crater, but i think I know where we are. We're pretty close to where you said we were.
CDR: Houston, your transmissions are still unreadable. Is Flank over there?
LMP: I think it's dead ahead of you, Al. Oh, wait a minute. This is probably it, right here. Yes.
CDR: Am I right?
UNKNOWN: Yes. Let's just doublecheck and see.
CDR: It's got a - about a h-meter-radius crater in the - in the south wall.
LMP: Tha_ has to be it.
CDR: Okay, Houston. We're going by Flank on the way up. We're passing to the north :side of it.
CC: Roger ...
UNKNOWN: Fred, you're still unreadable. ONFIDENTIAW
LMP: Let me pull awhile, Al. You're having all the fun.
CDR: Well, we still have a little way to go.
LMP: Yes_ we sure do. Putting the map away.
CDR: Huh_
LMP: I'm just putting the map away.
LMP: Okay. Fredo, you back with us?
CC: Okay, I'11 try again. How do you read, Ed?
LMP: Okay. That's much better. You got a background squeal.
CC: Okay. Evidently, that station switch gave us some problems. I've been ccpying ***
CC: Okay. We've been copying you most of the time, and I have you by a point now.
LMP: That's affirmative. And the grade is getting pretty steep.
LMP: And the soil here is a bit firmer, I think, than we'_e been on before. Except around what - the mounds in between craters where it's been thrown out. But, by and large, it seems to have a little firmer footing. We're not sinking in as deep.
CC: That should help you with the climb there.
LMP: Yes, it helps a little bit. Al's picked up the - Al's got the back of the _tET now, and we're carry- ing it up. I 'think it seems easier.
CDR: Left, right, left, right.
CC: There's two guys here that figured you'd carry it up.
CC: Said there's two guys sitting next to me here that kind of figured you'd end up carrying it up.
LMP: Well, it'11 roll along here, except we can Just move faster carrying it.
CDR: Okay. You want to rest here by this rock?
CDR: *** I think it's worthwhile taking a picture of it with the closeup. Go ahead and keep going.
LMP: I'11 pull on up. We probably ought to take a pan to locate everything here while ;you're taking a closeup (heavy breathing). Okay, you get that - -
CC: Okay. I understand, Al. You're shooting a 31oseup shot of a big boulder.
CC: About what's the size of this one, Al?
CDR: Okay. The shot's been taken on the closeup, counter number 317. Sun angle was 8 o'clock. The - this particular one is only about 12 feet long by about 4 feet wide. It's about one-third buried. It's old, very weathered. There are some evidences of some crystal shining through some of the fractures.
LMP: And I'm taking a Hasselblad of the rock and will take a pan now - at - from this location. Help document our course going to the top of Cone Crater.
LMP: And I can look right across into the breach in the north rim of 01d Nameless. We're about even with it, now. And my frame - -
CC: Okay, and copied, Ed. And was there any noticeable dust on the large boulder?
CDR: Not where I took the picture, bu_ some fillets around the bottom. IEONFIDENT .
CC: Okay, copy and ,out.
LMP: Okay. And 44, Fred, was my frame count. I believe that was - If I remember it.
LMP: Now, I'm going to move on out. Al's ahead of me here.
CDR: Okay. We're starting up the last flank of the crater now, Houston. The slope is probably about - oh, 18 percent. The surface texture is still pretty much the same, as far as the raindrop pat- tern is concerned. But we seem to find an increas- ing populavion of small rocks.
LMP: Small rocks and smaller - -
LMP: - - smaller, fresher craters, as well. Well - Well, wait a minute; maybe I'm being deceived. With this slope, the Sun angle is entirely differ- ent than it is on the flat land. The craters look shy'per in these shadows (heavy breathing).
CDR: Okay. Let's mske an t_U stop. Ok_r.
LMP: Let me pull awhile.
CDR: I'd like to stop and rest here for a minute.
CDR: Boy, I tell you, we're really going to get a pan- or_na. We've got a tremendous one here, Houston, already. And we're not quite to the rim. Head towards out [sic] Old Nameless over there, right along our track - or Just south of our track, I shoald say. We made the right approach; we came up through the valley and over the range and down into the bowl. Couldn't have planned it better.
LMP: I thought we were in a low spot with the IM, but it turns out we're really not in the lowest spot around, I don't think.
CDR: Well, I don't know. I tell you_, it's probably the lowest spot right -
LMP: Oh, right in that particular local area.
CDR: Right in _hat area, yes.
LMP: But that's the low spot over to the right that I was talking about. And there's a low spot - -
CDR: Well, there's a crater over there. It's true, yes.
LMP: Yes. Yes. Doggone it, you can sure be deceived by slopes here. The sun angle is very deceiving.
LMP: Okay, let me pull awhile. You ready to go?
CDR: Yes. All set.
LMP: Go back to M_IN cool, MINIMUM cocl first.
CDR: I guess right straight up is the best way to go.
LMP: Beg your pardon?
CDR: Right straight up is the best way to go.
LMP: Yes, I think so.
CDR: Stay away from the rocks.
LMP: Okay. Get a little momentum going.
CDR: Okay, Houston. We're proceeding onward now.
LMP: And the boulder fields that A1 pointed out - the rocks and boulders are getting more numerous toward the top here. However, it's nothing like the rubble and the large boulders that we saw at the Nevada test site. Now, this is surprising to me. I expected it to be more lille that. But it is not, at least, not where we're lcoking now (heavy breathing). jONFIDENTIAL
CDR: Wel-., we haven't reached the rim, yet.
LMP: Oh boy, we got fooled on that one. I'm not sure tha_; was Flank we were in a minute ago, either (heavy breathing). Wait a minute. Yes, it is. The rim's right here. That's the - that's the eas":- little shoulder running down from the Cone. Tha-5's Flank over there (heavy breathing). We're going to hit ii; on the south side. We'11 have to move on around it. This looks like easy going right here. See, there's the boulder field that shows in the photograph - right up ahead of us?
CDR: There's a crater up there, Ed.
LMP: Yes. Pardon?
CDR: Crater up there.
CC: Okay, A1 and Ed. They'd like you to take another stop here.
LMP: Okay. We're really going up a pretty steep slope here.
CC: Yes. We kind of figured that from listening to you.
CDR: Okay. Well, now, that's apparently the rim of And Cone over there. we're about - almost 2 hours now. Is that right, Fred?
CC: Ok&y. We're showing 1:57 and a half now, Al.
CDR: Okaqf. That's at least 30 minutes up there.
LMP: Ye_;.
CDR: And - I would say we'd probably do better to go up to those boulders there, document that, use t_mnaround that as the point. than
LMP: Ye.'_. It's going to take longer we expected. Otu_ positions are all in doubt now, Fredo. What was flank, wasn't we were looking at a but it really - the top of it wasn't the rim of Cone. We've got a ways to go, yet.
CDR: Well, perhaps you can think - -
CC: Okay, Ed. And - -
CDR: - - perhaps you can think with us, if you want. I'd say that the rim is at leas_ 30 minutes away. We're approaching the edge of the boulder field here on the south flank.
LMP: Let's look at that map.
CDR: And what I'm proposing is perhaps we use that as the turnaround point. It seems to me that we spend an awful lot of time on traverse if we don't, and we don't get very many samples.
CC: Roger, Al. And, Just a couple of questions they have up now. They'd like your note, if you do see any dust, particularly on the top surfaces of boulders in the - in the area. And, any compari- sons between the boulders you see distributed around. Are they all the same or do some t_pes appear different?
LMP: *** We're not really in that bo_alder territory, yet.
CDR: I think, Fredo, if you'11 keep _;hose questions in mind, the best thing for us to do is to get up _lere and doc_mpnt - and sample - what i feel is pretty sure is Cone eJecta. And then, when we head down-Sun, we'11 be able to see these subtle variations and rock types a lot better than we are right now.
CDR: Well, let's head for these two babies up here.
LMP: Hey, Al?
LMP: I'd - #** keep going around this crater, but - except you're right here.
CDR: Well, maybe. I thought we'd get those boulders up there, Ed. They - - itCONFIDENTIA
CDR: - - undoubtedly came from - -
LMP: Yes. Let's head right for that boulder field at the top. I think we'11 be where we want to be.
LMP: Yes, right - clear on up at the top, you mean.
CDR: I don't think we'11 have time to go up there.
LMP: Oh, let's give it a whirl. Gee whiz. We can't stop without looking into Cone Crater.
LMP: *** everyvhing if we don't get there.
CDR: I think we'11 waste ar. awful lot of time traveling and not much documenting.
LMP: WeLl, the information we're going to find, I think, is going to be right on top.
CC: We establish -
CDR: Okay, Ed. Look at this - you're going through - Just kicked up a layer of some very light gray fine underneath the -
LMP: Yes. As you look back along your path, there's quite a bit of it.
CDR: Yes, this crater -
LMP: Fredo, how far behind time line are we?
CC: Okay. The best I can tell right now - about 25 minutes down, now.
CDR: We'11 be an hour down by the time we get to the top of that thing. You got six samples.
LMP: Well, I think we're going to find what we're lock- ing for up there.
CC: Okay, A1 and Ed. In view of youn:'assay of the - where you_' location is and how long it's going to take to get to Cone, the word from the backrcom is they'd like you to consider where you are the edge of Cone Crater.
LMP: Think you're finks.
CC: That decision, I guess, was based on Al's estimate of another, at least, 30 minutes; and, of course, we - we cannot see that from here. It's kind of your judgment on that.
LMP: Well, we're three-quarters there.
LMP: Why don't we lose our bet_ Al, and leave the M_T and get on up there? We could ma_e it a lot faster without it.
CDR: No. I think what we're looking at right here in this boulder field, Ed, is the stuff that's ejected from Cone.
UNKNOWN: But not the lowermost part, which is what we're interested in.
CDR: Okay. We'11 press on a little farther, Houston. And keep your eye on the time.
CC: Okay. And, as of right now, we have a 30-minute extension.
CC: And Al, did you copy 30-minute extension?
LMP: We got it. ICONFIDENTIAL
CDR: Yes. That's affirmative, Fred. Thank you.
CDR: Ok_. Stop at this little rise here and take a panorama.
CDR: 0k_T, Al's going to MEDIUM flow.
LMP: Ok_, I'11 take a pan from here.
CDR: Well, I'11 tell you, it's a fantastic view from here, as this pan will show.
CDR: We're approaching the edge of the rugged boulder field to the west rim. It appears as though the best for us to do will be go to the west rim and document from there, even though the Sun angle may not be quite as good. Well, we're pressing on in that direction. Al's back to MIN flow.
CC: Roger, Al. You're moving to the west rim.
CDR: Al's back to _N flow, and we're moving again.
CC: And, A1 and Ed, Deke says he'11 cover the bet if you'11 drop the MET.
LMP: It's not that hard with the MET. We need those tools.
CDR: No, the MET's not slowing us down, Houston. It's Just a question of time. We'11 get there.
LMP: Give you a hand, Al.
LMP: You caught a boulder with your wheel as you went _round that corner (heavy breathing).
LMP: Head left. It's right up there.
CDR: Yes. I'm going there.
LMP: You need a little more lift. Go right up through there. I'11 give you a hand.
CDR: Okay. We're now right in the middle of the boulder field on the west rim. We haven't qui%e reached the rim yet.
CDR: Okay. Want to rest here a minute?
LMP: Yes. Lev's take a look at the map. I think we're closer than that (heavy breathing).
CDR: Okay, I'11 Just go ahead slowly with this.
CDR: Okay. Find the crater?
LMP: Yes. The rim's right up here.
LMP: Let's see if we can spot this one, A1 - -
UNKNOWN: - - on the map.
CC: Okay. And, Al, it looks like you'd be a little more comfortable there if you're, on INTERMEDIATE.
CDR: Yes. Okay. We're resting now.
CDR: Look. Let me show you something.
LMP: Here's that crater. We're down here. We got to go there.
CDR: What crater?
LMP: That crater right there is that one right there.
CDR: Okay. Want to pull for a while? [ONFIDENTIA_ti41
CDR: Okay. We're absut the mmximum elevation now, Houston. it's leveled out a little bit. And it looks like we'11 be approaching the rim here very shortly.
CC: Roger, Al. And you can leave the dial in INTER- b_DIATE. We're fat on the - for the feedwater.
LMP: Let me set mine. If we're in that good a shape, let me set mine, Houston, if I'm okay, too.
CC: That's affirm, Ed. I guess the iow item is the bat'_eries.
LMP: 0opX It's going over. No, got it.
LMP: Fantastic stabilization, Al; it's going to turn ove r.
CDR: Okay. We better reconnoiter here. I don't see the crater yet.
LMP: I agree. *** rock under my wheels.
CDR: See this boulder pattern and all that we're in here, right now? This boulder field and all?
LMP: I thought it was on the south rim.
CC: And, A1 and Ed, do you have the rim in sight at this time?
LMP: Oh. yes.
CDR: That's affirmative. It's down in the valley.
CC: I'n sorry. You misunderstood the question. I me_Lnt the rim of Cone Crater.
CDR: Oh, the rim. This is negative. We don't - haven't found that yet.
LMP: This big boulder right here, Al,, which stands out bigger than anything else - ought to be - ought to be able to see it.
CDR: Well, I don't know but what the rim is still - way up there from the looks of things.
CC: And, Ed and Al, we've already eaten in our 30-minute extension, and we're past that now. I think we'd better proceed with the sampling and continue with the EVA.
LMP: Okay, Fredo.
CDR: Okay. We'11 observe with a pan from here. I'11 take that.
LMP: All right, I'11 start sampling.
CDR: Okay, Houston. We are in the middle of a fairly large boulder field. It covers perhaps as much as a square mile. And - as the pan will show, I don't believe we've quite reached the rim yet, although we can't be too far away. And I think, certainly, we'11 find that these samples are pretty far down in Cone Crater.
LMP: Okay. Come on.
UNKNOWN: Okay, you about to start taking documented samples?
CDR: Ail righty. I would say, Houston, that most of these boulders are the same brow_lish gray that we've fouu_d. But we see one that is definitely almost white in color. A very definite differ- ence in color, which we'11 document. We noticed that beneath this dark brown regolith, there is a very light brown layer. And I think we'11 get a - a core tube right here to show that. As a matter of fact, I think I'11 do that right now.
CC: Roger, Al. And for your information, we won't be doing the polarimetric experiment. DNFIDENTI
CDR: I understand, you will not be.
CC: That's affirm. You can delete that one.
CDR: ()kay, Al's going back to MIN cool.
CC: Roge;r, Al. And_ Ed, I need an opinion. Do you think you'd be able to deploy and take the second ;_nd last LPM reading at this location?
LMP: Yes, we can take it at this location.
CC: Okay. What I have on the board here to perform at - I guess we'11 call it C-prime - is a sample, and I guess you already got a pan - I thought some- body did - and the LPM then.
CDR: Okay. Let me suggest that we take one of these football-sized rocks from here, too, Fredo.
LMP: Yes
CC: Roger, Al. Vez7 good.
LMP: This area that we're in right now is - we're sam- pling in - is a pretty darn rugged boulder-strewn area. One of the smaller rocks I've sampled is goi:ag into 7-N.
CC: And, A1 and Ed. When you can work it in, we'd like and EMU check.
CDR: Okay. Al, 3.7!5 and reading 52 on the oxygen; and I'm in MEDIUM flow and I'm comfortable; no flags.
LMP: Okay. I'm reading 3.75, I'm 48 on oxygen; I'm now at MIN flow, having Just shifted; and I'm comfort- able.
LMP: Okay. LPM deploy.
CDR: Okay. The core-tube sample turned out to only be about three-quarters of a tube. The area is ap- parently very rocky, but I did get down into the second layer, the underlying layer, of the regolith, which was white as opposed to being dark brown.
CC: Roger, Al. Understand you got down to another layer that looked white below the dark brown.
CDR: On second thought, forget that core tube. It's too granular, and most of the material came out of the tube. I'11 Just scoop a couple of samples, and bag it, of the two top layers.
LMP: Hey, Fredo; I'm having a hard time leveling the -
CC: Okay- -
CC: _Lnd, Al. About what sample bag number are you up to now?
LMP: 7-N was the last one I put in.
CDR: Okay, Fredo, we're up on 12 here. I don't know whether that's consecutive or not, apparently not. -
LMP: Okay, Fredo, I'm I'm back at the _._T, having left the LPM; took my time.
LMP: The LPM is alined about 3 degree3 - -
LMP: - - 3 degrees to the north of the east-west line.
CC: Okay. 3 degrees to north.
LMP: And it is level; the bubble's Just about in _he center.
CC: What's the size of the largest block y'all have passed, Ed?
LMP: That we've gone past? Oh -
CDR: Would you hand me the shovel, please, Ed? CIDNFIDENTtA '_
LMP: Hey, Fred, are you ready to read the LPM?
LMP: Fredo. Houston, you still with us?
CC: Affirm, Ed.
LMP: Okay, can I read the LPM?
CC: All right. You can go ahead with the reading, Ed.
LMP: Okay. I'm on - -
CC: Ail right. Go ahead, Ed.
LMP: - - low scale, 4.9 on X; Y, 4.6; Z, 6.5; X, 4.9; Y, 4.6; Z, 7.0; X, 4.9; Y, 4.5; Z, 7.5. And it's still going up in Z. Better give you one more set. X is 4.6, Y is 4.4, Z is 8.0; and it seems steady at that level.
CC: Roger, Ed, copied all four sets. And all were taken on low settings, and you can discard the instrument at this point.
LMP: Okay. It is done.
CC: And[, Al, did you say you had taken a sample of the white boulder, or was that too large to sample?
CDR: No. Right now, I'm sampling a layer that is sort of a light gray Just under the regolith. That went in bag number 9, and bag number 10 was a sample of some of the stufface rocks that were - that were right around that area. It looks like kind of a surface secondary impact that had disrupted the regolith and gone on down into the gray area. Okay.
CDR: You want to - -
LMP: Oh, we'11 rmnke - make a grab sample here, as well as doc_menting. Get one that'11 ... your
CC: Okay. And, Ed, is the LPM still in immediate area, then? L
CC: Okay. They wanted a temperature reading off of it.
CDR: Okay, he'11 get it for you in a minute.
LMP: Here, I'11 get it - minute. Okay.
CDR: Do you want the gnomon?
UNKNOWN: Okay. And, Al, did - did you mention either' seeing - a white boulder or a brown a brownish-gray boulder earlier?
CDR: I mentioned there's a boulder definitely whitish in color, Fred. And we'11 be over vhere in a min- ute. Not in our immediate vicinity. But it def- initely looks well worthwhile ssmpling.
LMP: Ail right, the LPM -
CC: That's affirm. They concur here and we'd like you to sample from the white boulder. Go ahead, E_.
LMP: 125 on the LPM.
LMP: Okay. Where is it you're headed for, Al?
LMP: I'11 get the bag.
CDR: - - something we ought to do, if we want to drag the MET with us, is - See that white boulder down there?
LMP: Yes, I saw it. And there's a - that's a - bu_mer. Yes.
CDR: We can sample both - both types of boulders right down in that area; so, let's go on down there.
LMP: Ail right. C(INFIDENTIAW
CDR: And can you give us a feel, Houston, about when you'd like us to leave the area?
CC: Okay. Estimated time of departure is in about 8 n_[nutes - 7 and a half minutes.
LMP: Okay. You want: the hammer? I'11 grab it.
CDR: Okay. ! guess we Just run down there this way, huh?
LMP: Yes. Okay. I see - One of these boulders, Fredo, is broken open. They're really brown boulders on the outside, and the interface that's broken is white, and then another one that most of it is white. They are right in the same area.
CDR: Yess I believe that's probably a - -
CC: Okay, Ed. I assume you're going to sample some of those.
CC: That's where we're headed right now. It's about 50 yards away. and
CDR: Why don't you go on down and start, let me bring the MET down.
LMP: All right. Yes. It's further than it looks.
CDR: That's the order of the day.
LMP: Okay, Fredo. I'm right in the midst of a whole pile of very large boulders here. It's - See what meaningful I can do to grab a sample.
CC: Roger, Ed. my
LMP: Firs_ of all, let met start photographing. This whole area. hardly
LMP: They're all so darn big 5hat there's anything that I can find. Let me see if I can chip one.
LMP: Okay, Fredo --
CC: Okay, Ed and Al, to get - to get us back on the old time line here, when you depart C here, we'd like to proceed directly to F, Weird. And we'11 pick back up from that point. En route, you can make grab samples as you see fi_.
LMP: Okay. _nld Fredo, I've Just - -
CC: And another note I'11 remind you of later on. Go ahead, i'm sorry.
LMP: I've chipped off one of the white rocks. I put it in bag 13-N. I'11 photograph it. There don't seem to be any samples of the white rocks lying around that are small enough for me to sample and be sure that's what I'm looking for.
CC: Roger, Ed. 13-N.
CDR: Now, Just going around picking up hand-size grab samples from the immediate vicinity of where Ed is - is operating. I have a couple that are going in bag 16.
CDR: *** help with that one?
LMP: That's all right; I can do it.
CDR: There's a football-size rock, Houston, coming out of this area, which will not be bagged, it is - appears to be the prevalent rock of the boulders of the area.
LMP: That's better.
CDR: That can go in one of the Z-bags.
CDR: Okay. You got a sample of that white rock?
LMP: Yes, I got one batch of particles.
CDR: Okay. Put it right in here. ICONFIDENTI
LMP: I dcn't think it'11 go.
CDR: Yes. Core tube's out of the way. It'11 go.
CDR: Okay. We'11 Just try it back that way.
LMP: Okay'. Let's get another one.
CC: Okay, A1 and Ed. We have about 1 more minute here at C.
CDR: Okay. We're moving on down the hill, now. Okay. Can you see Weird from here?
CDR: Kind of hard to find.
LMP: I can't even see Triplet from here (laughter).
CDR: Okay, let - let's - -
LMP: Wai'_ a minute, Al. Let me take one quick look at the map before we move. Waste a minute looking.
CDR: Why don't you take the map, and I'11 Just head down to the general area of the LM, and you'11 probably get enough elevation view from down there so we can see Weird.
CDR: Oka 7. We're leaving C now, Houston.
LMP: Do you see North Triplet?
CC: Roger, Al. And to rephrase the question earlier, on the way back down, you n_ight integrate any dis- tinction in the lithology on the way back with a better Sun angle, and you're free to take grab sam_kles - samples en route to Weird.
LMP: Al, I think that's Weird to the north - I mean Just to the left of North Triplet. And North Triplet appears to me to be right behind the LM.
LMP: You agree?
CDR: It's between - it's halfway between those two large boulders and one way down.
UNKNOWN: Yes, I think that's right. Uh-huh, that's the one.
CDR: Okay. These rocks - these boudders in - in this field here appear to be very weathered, obviously not by atmosphere but - but eroded by some process, because they all show cracks. They show evidences of being broken up either by impact or subsequently. And it looks to me as though these rocks are really pretty old.
CC: Roger, Al. And do you have anything left on the 16-millimeter or has it been running on the >rET?
CDR: No, it hasn't. We might turn it on now - follow the progress.
CDR: It running now?
LMP: Have you checked the setting on it?
CDR: Guess I better.
CC: And, Al, without taking any extra time, if you - -
LMP: Come across.
CC: - - come across any boulders large enough, we might fill the comm check on the way down, if you haven't already done that on the way up.. dlONFIDENT
LMP: I don't think we're going to find any along our path big enough, Fredo. The very largest ones are off to the right - south of us a bit - and up the hill a bit more.
CDR: Let s go on - Did you want anything back there?
LMP: You want me to hold you back?
LMP: Watch out. Bet you're going to go over here a minute.
LMP: I can't catch you. Okay.
CDR: And here again, Houston, the texture here appears to be - the regolith appears to be a lot of - of pebbles, approximately a quarter of an inch on down to go along with the fines. And the same textured pattern we spoke of before and photographed is also here.
CDR: Okay. 'W_y don't we stop here to see if we're really going to Weird.
LMP: Yes. Man, the LM doesn't seem like it's getting much closer.
CDR: Is that Weird right down there, you think?
LMP: H_? No, Weird is - Weird is almost due east of the LM. That's - Oh, there it is. Look, see - -
CC: And, A1 and Ed - -
LMP: Switch ...
CC: - - We'd like an E_TJ cheek.
CDR: Okay; this is Al. 3.75 and 45 ]percent; and on MIN - MEDIUM flow; and I'm comfortable.
LMP: Okay, this is Ed. I'm on 3.75; MIN flow. i'm 40 percent and very comfortable. And there's Weird, Al. You can see the triple crater in it. It' s the - -
LMP: - - the white spot?
CDR: Yes. With the boulder in the near foreground.
CDR: Okay. We're now out of the boulder field, Houston, and proceeding on down to Flank.
CDR: And, I believe - Just get a shot - let's get a sample of that baby right there. Let's grab some- thing from that one.
CDR: He's going to get a quick grab here of a rocK, and I'11 - I'11 photograph it because it's got same tremendous fillets in it.
CDR: Don't hit the fillets until I photograph it.
CDR: It's not there. Why don't you let me get a quick shot there. Okay, a quick pan across there. Okay. That looks like - Yes, we ought I_O get a piece of that baby. JONFIDENTIALm
LMP: No, :nan; that's hard, hard, hard! Look at that melt in it.
CDR: Yes. Okay, here's a piece of it. Ail right?
LMP: Come way on back here.
CDR: Crystals here; don't lose it. Okay, that was about - it's about where we - No, I guess not.
LMP: Hold it a minute. Hold itl Let me get a bag.
LMP: This darn bag dispenser is not doing what it's supposed to do.
CDR: Go _daead and take twc. Small.
LMP: Houston, the rock we're taking is in 14-N. Grab sample from a filleted rock.
CC: Roger, Ed. 14-N.
LMP: Large filleted rock that - A1 photographed. Okay, let's go on. Do you want me to pull awhile?
CDR: No, Just watch everything. We don't want anything to drop off.
LMP: You want me to hold back awhile and -
CDR: No, no, no. I'd let it - Just let it run. We don't want to lose anything.
LMP: No. It's holding in very well. *** doesn't turn over. A little higher e.g. now than we had before with that big rock in there.
CDR: Fredo, could you give us an idea of about what time we should arrive at Weird? How much more time?
CC: Roger. Stand by 1°
LMP: That 16-millimeter's bouncing all over every place.
CDR: 0_ht to be a good - good -
CDR: Okay. I hate to m_ke a grab here that's not from this crater. Looks like that cut fairly deep, though.
LMP: Yes. Let's - Hey, here's a whole batch of them right down here, Al. Let's grab those.
CDR: Which way, left or right?
LMP: Off to the left and ahead - aro_ad that little crater. They're all from this same area.
CDR: Houston. Unable to see any stratigraphy in any of these craters. The slumping has been such that it's pretty much destroyed - -
LMP: I'11 grab this one right here.
CDR: - - any evidence of stratigraphy.
CC: Roger, Al. And I assume, positionwise, you're past Flank, now. Is that correct? Or at least, the D position of Flank?
CDR: No, we're not, Fredo. We're - no, we're not at Fank - at Flank, yet. I'd say we're probably 15 minutes away from Weird. Did you get it on board?
LMP: As a matter of fact, I think this is - this is Flank right here.
CDR: Get it on board?
LMP: Yes, I've got the rock on board.
CDR: Okay, let's press.
CC: Roger. And one other question that's up there is to check for the stratigraphy reported earlier of the light gray-white layer below the top, if you see that exposed anywhere. until
CDR: Okay. Now, we did not see that we started approaching the edge of the boulder field. The - There's no evidence of that at all that we ncticed. ONFIDENT
LMP: :_ot down this far. One thing I did notice - further outside of where we saw the white underneath - but it looked like an impact had either been of the white rock or it was a splatter of white. And it vas Just outside where A1 was reporting that the underlying layer was white. As a matter of fact - No, that Just - The Sun angle was causing it. Right now, some of the spray that we're kicking up looks white underneath, but I'm convinced it's Just the angle. I looked back the other way, and it - it's not substantiated.
LMP: Hold i-.
CDR: Okay, we're moving along pretty well, Fred, at this point. And I'd. say we're still probably about 10 minutes away from Weird.
CC: Veer good, Al. It sounds like you're making a litvle better time going down than up.
LMP: Yes, the slope's a different way, Fredo. In this case, the MET helps.
CDR: Okay, don't let me lose that; baby. That's it right there with the three - -