Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Mon Oct 22 2018 08:07:00 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 October 22 [2] Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3 Image Credit: Apollo 12 [3] Crew, NASA [4] Explanation: Apollo 12 [5] was the second mission to land humans [6] on the Moon [7] . The landing site was picked to be near the location of Surveyor [8] 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the Moon [9] three years earlier. In the featured photograph [10] , taken by lunar module pilot Alan Bean [11] , mission commander Pete Conrad [12] jiggles [13] the Surveyor spacecraft to see how firmly it is situated. The lunar module [14] is visible [15] in the distance. Apollo 12 [16] brought back many photographs and moon rocks. Among the milestones achieved by Apollo 12 was the deployment [17] of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package [18] , which carried out many experiments including one that measured the solar wind [19] . Tomorrow's picture: super cluster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [20] | Archive [21] | Submissions [22] | Index [23] | Search [24] | Calendar [25] | RSS [26] | Education [27] | About APOD [28] | Discuss [29] | > [30] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [31] (MTU [32] ) & Jerry Bonnell [33] (UMCP [34] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [35] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [36] A service of: ASD [37] at NASA [38] / GSFC [39] & Michigan Tech. U. [40] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1810/surveyor3_ap12c_1488.jpg [3] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.crew.html [4] https://www.nasa.gov/ [5] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo12info.html [6] http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html [7] moon.html [8] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html [9] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/earths-moon/overview/ [10] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#7134h [11] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/alan-bean [12] ap990715.html [13] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#7134h [14] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-the-apollo-lunar-module [15] ap951007.html [16] https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/ landing-missions/apollo12.cfm [17] ap951210.html [18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Surface_Experiments_Package [19] ap000318.html [20] ap181021.html [21] archivepix.html [22] lib/apsubmit2015.html [23] lib/aptree.html [24] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [25] calendar/allyears.html [26] /apod.rss [27] lib/edlinks.html [28] lib/about_apod.html [29] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=181022 [30] ap181023.html [31] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [32] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [33] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [34] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [35] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [36] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [37] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [38] https://www.nasa.gov/ [39] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [40] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .