Oct 8 1966
From The Space Library
NASA's SURVEYOR I spacecraft, which soft-landed on the moon's Ocean of Storms June 2, responded to signals from Johannesburg tracking station almost three months after it had been turned off following successful completion of its mission. Batteries had been recharged during latter part of moon's 14-day period of sunlight. JPL scientists said an attempt might be made to obtain additional photos of the lunar surface from the spacecraft before sun set about noon EDT Oct. 9. (Wash. Sun. Star, 10/9/66, A4)
Executive Committee of International Council of Scientific Unions meeting in Monaco approved statement underlining importance of agreement that scientific meetings "shall not be disturbed by political statements or by any activities of a political nature." (NAS-NRC-NAE News Report, 10/66, 11)
Small-scale lunar roughness resulted from impact of small meteorites, not from internal volcanic effects, according to J. A. Bastin, Queen Mary College, London, in a letter to Nature. He advanced arguments that (1) roughness lacks horizontal directionality associated with vulcanism, and (2) from known distribution of meteorites by size, taken with estimates of age of lunar surface, "it can be shown that the surface should be virtually covered by craters of millimetre and centimetre size. . . . (Bastin, Nature, 10/8/66, 171-3)
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