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Science 3 November 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3801, pp. 642 - 652
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3801.642
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Surveyor V: Television Pictures

E. M. Shoemaker 1, R. M. Batson 1, H. E. Holt 1, E. C. Morris 1, J. J. Rennilson 2, and E. A. Whitaker 3

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona
2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
3 University of Arizona, Tucson

Surveyor V landed in a small crater, 8.5 meters wide and 12.5 meters long, which was probably formed by drainage of surficial fragmental debris into a subsurface fissure. The lunar surface debris layer is exposed in the walls of this crater. At depths below about 10 centimeters, the debris appears to be composed mainly of shock-compressed aggregates, ranging from a few millimeters up to 3 centimeters in diameter, set in a matrix of less-coherent finer particles. Rocky chips and fragments larger than a millimeter are dispersed as a subordinate constituent of the debris.


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