Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972

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Tape 60/2
CC
Roger.
LMP
That's the small craters.
There, in the Mare
Procellarum closest to Grimaldi, there are two
arcuate rilles.
Look like they are probably
V-shaped in their cross section.
I'm sure we've
seen those on the photographs much better than I
can see them here.
Those - the rille patterns,
though, do seem to project over into the highlands.
CC
Okay.
LMP
To the north of that - to the north of that bay
of mare.
Just interrupt.
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LMP
Hey, I just saw a flash on the lunar surface!
CC
Oh, yes?
LMP
It was just out there north of Grimaldi.
Just
north of Grimaldi.
You might see if you got any­
thing on your seismometers, although a small impact
probably would give a fair amount of visible light.
CC
Okay.
We'll check.
LMP
It was a bright little flash right out there near
that crater.
See the crater right at the edge of
Grimaldi.
Then there is another one north of it.
Fairly sharp one north of it is where there was
just a thin streak of light.
CC
How about putting an X on the map where you saw it.
LMP
I keep looking occasionally for - yes, we will.
I -
I was planning on looking for those kind of
things.
Starting to see the edge of Orientale,
Gordy.
Way off to the west.
Hey, just yell,
Gene, anytime you -
-
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LMP
Gordy, to the north of Grimaldi there is a large
basin that is about the same size but only incom­
pletely filled with mare in its northeastern
quadrant.
The rest of it looks like a fairly ir­
regular and hummocky floor material of some kind.
CC
Roger,