121:31:05 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, magazine Victor is out, loaded, and ready. Okay, now I need to know some settings to use it on. That's also a hard thing to do. Now my little photo wheel. I'm on rev - [garble] the final one. Let me what - look at the revs - 25. This is Rev 25.
121:32:07 Mattingly (CM onboard): And AOS should occur at five - and a half. Oh, man, look at that. Isn't that clever? Somebody really did a lot of good work here. My little photo wheel, I'll put right here. It's on [garble]. Now let's see if we can see some electricity. Binoculars, put up; dark side goes out. Man, that's a super crew - some octopuses - that's trying to balance three checklists, two cameras, a photo wheel; take your sunglasses on and off and not lose them. Well, here comes our old friend King. This time let's look at King out to the north. Seems like I never get set up in time. All these [garble].
121:33:23 Mattingly (CM onboard): Well, we'll get a good view of King. Let's see what's out this way. There's that minor crater chain, running down to Tsiolkovsky. It's a little bit disappointing. There is nothing you can see from the south of King. Boy, I'd swear we were seeing things when we were down lower.
121:34:14 Mattingly (CM onboard): How about that. AOS will be about 02:13 [garble] Okay, we can take the dark slide out just to be different. [garble] off. Sure hope they put the UV transmittance in the right window.
121:50:07 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston. Could you bring up the High Gain - according to the Flight Plan?
121:51:48 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston.
121:51:52 Mattingly: Hello there.
121:51:54 Hartsfield: Hello; how's things going?
121:51:55 Mattingly: I been trying, Hank [garble]. I don't know. That - that acquisition there wasn't as smooth as I thought it might be. I tried to get you using manual to tweak it up a little bit and that didn't seem to help much. Maybe I'm not helping at all, maybe I'm hurting.
121:52:34 Mattingly: I saw one thing that was - that was new about the zodiacal-light world. You don't realize that that stuff is actually reasonably bright until - you get yourself well dark-adopted then you sit up there long enough to recognize it. But almost - almost immediately after - oh, I'd say within - certainly within five minutes and maybe a little sooner after LOS, there was enough zodiacal light or solar corona - whichever is the proper technical name - that you could see a distinct horizon. And it just got more distinct right up until sunrise. I never did see any prominences or anything like that. I kind of thought that maybe we would, but I guess those are too small a scale. But, just prior to sunrise, you see a lot of long streaks and that's - well, I say just prior - that's like just a few seconds before sunrise. All of a sudden, you get these very prominent rays coming out and then the Sun's right there. You don't want to be looking at that.
121:53:41 Hartsfield: Roger; copy...
121:53:42 Mattingly: But it is right - right pretty to watch that stuff at night.
121:53:51 Hartsfield: Sounds like a real pretty sight. INCO says that - that they saw you in Narrow when you were trying to bring the High Gain up and that you'd have a little better luck with Wide.
121:54:08 Mattingly: Okay, you're right. I looked down at the Flight Plan and saw a Reacq and Narrow. And then I went back to Manual. I - I may have had it in Narrow all along. Thank you.
121:54:37 Hartsfield: Ken, I got a - a - zodiacal-light, mapping camera photo PADs for you, and TEI-32 block data.
121:54:49 Mattingly: Okay. Stand by. I'm going to get my books.
121:54:55 Hartsfield: If you want to start with the photo PADs, the zodiacal light you copy at 123:12.
121:55:10 Mattingly: Okay, I got that and I also kind of got intrigued back along about - back along about King was the first chance I had to get all squared away again from the - the low-light-level stuff, so I didn't get a chance to look at as much back there as I had hoped, but - back around King, pretty interesting stuff again - was looking at a crater and some of the beds and things that are in it - apparent beds - and I'm convinced now that we're not seeing beds at all. Through the binoculars, it looks like those things are dark material and light material that slumped together, and why they formed shelves like that I don't have any idea, but you can't trace them through - if they are stratigraphy, then they are indeed - not only have you had horizontal stratigraphy but you've had a great deal of vertical fractures that's caused these things to slide in different proportions. Because there's no continuous horizontal strata and you don't realize that until you look at it in detail. Okay, I got my Updates Book out and I got my Flight Plan here, so you can take the photo PAD just if you like.
121:56:24 Hartsfield: Okay, the first one is - the zodiacal light at 123:12; T-start is 123...
121:56:34 Mattingly: I got it.
121:56:38 Hartsfield: ...09:38
121:56:44 Mattingly: Okay, 123:09:38.
121:56:49 Hartsfield: Okay, the next one comes at 123:32. There's not a block there for that one because we added that in. But T-start for the mapping camera is 123:31:12; T-stop is 124:31:02.
121:57:16 Mattingly: Okay, Hank. I just got 31:12 for the start time. I'm writing that in. I don't have a PAD and T-stop - tell me again please.
121:57:26 Hartsfield: T-stop: 124:31:02.
121:57:33 Mattingly: Okay.
121:57:37 Hartsfield: And the next map - mapping camera PAD is at 125:30.
121:57:49 Mattingly: 125:30. Okay.
121:57:53 Hartsfield: T-start is 125:30:05; T-stop, 126:29:55.
121:58:08 Mattingly: Okay, 125:30:05, 126:29:55.
121:58:12 Hartsfield: Good readback.
121:58:14 Mattingly: Let me mark that before you give me any more.
121:58:44 Mattingly: Okay, go ahead.
121:58:46 Hartsfield: Are you ready for the TEI-32 block?
121:58:51 Mattingly: Yes, sir.
121:58:53 Hartsfield: Okay, TEI-32. SPS/G&N; 38709; plus 0.72, plus 1.33; 137:12:07.88; Noun 81, plus 2922.0, plus 0699.7, minus 0120.2; 181, 110, 015; rest of the PAD's NA. The set stars, same as circ, two jets, 17 seconds. Other: lambda Moon at T
IG - minus 161.32, and landing site REFSMMAT.
122:00:20 Mattingly: Okay, TEI-32: SPS/G&N; 38709; plus 0.72, plus 1.33; 137;12:07.88; plus 2922.0, plus 0699.7, minus 0120.2; 181, 110, 015. Set stars same as circ; two jets, 17 seconds; lambda, minus 161.32; and this is the landing REFSMMAT.
122:00:53 Hartsfield: Good readback, Ken.
122:02:31 Mattingly: Hank, can you give me any coordinates on the LM estimated position?
122:02:38 Hartsfield: I'll work on that, Ken. And did you take any earthshine photos?
122:02:45 Mattingly: No, sir. I - I tried to get them in last night and we decided they'd close up shop before I could get them in.
122:02:54 Hartsfield: Okay...
122:02:55 Mattingly: And, I tell you it's going down. It was much more dramatic the first night than it was last night and it's not as dramatic tonight on the night-side so, if you can find a place to put it, that is one thing I'd like to get. The sooner the better.
122:03:12 Hartsfield: Okay. FAO advises that if you didn't take any earthshines that magazine X-ray X-ray is - which is - I think already have on the Nikon is good for the zodiacal light rather than changing to Yankee Yankee. And on this next rev...
122:03:28 Mattingly: Yes, sir; I'd planned to do that.
122:03:31 Hartsfield: On next rev, you could - if you want to take some earthshine, they suggest Window 4 and take away.
122:03:44 Mattingly: Window 4.
122:03:53 Mattingly: Okay. I guess I'll have to check the attitude. Do they - if I take the zodiacal light on X-Ray X-Ray, you'd - do they have a recommended magazine?
122:04:03 Hartsfield: Stand by.
122:05:21 Hartsfield: Okay, Ken. I've got a film story for you. If you choose to do the earthshine, use mag XX and window 4 and the target should be about - You should see it about 122:42. If you don't do the earthshine, you can go ahead and use XX for 30 - the zodiacal. If you do the earthshine, of course, with the XX, you need the YY per Flight Plan for the zodiacal.
122:05:50 Mattingly: Okay. I don't think it'd be prudent for me to try and get the earthshine and the zodiacal light on the same rev.
122:05:58 Hartsfield: Okay. Copy. And the Surgeon is still anxious to see you sometime find a place to change out the sensors.
122:06:09 Mattingly: Roger. I understand that.
122:06:24 Mattingly: Hey, do you need them all changed, Hank, or can you send me to one so I don't have to waste time with all that stuff? You got to break out each one of those little things by itself and keep track of it. It - it takes a good 20 minutes if you change out the whole sensors.
122:06:36 Hartsfield: Stand by one.
122:07:11 Hartsfield: Ken, the surgeon says he can't tell which - which one of the sensors is dead, so before we take off here and do them all, why don't you try pressing down on them and let him - let him watch his data - maybe we can find out which one is the dead one. Press them one at a time.
122:07:27 Mattingly: Okay. Let me - okay. I'll start on the ground. I'm pressing the ground now.
122:07:45 Hartsfield: Okay. That didn't do it.
122:07:51 Mattingly: Okay. I'll go to the - the sternal.
122:08:11 Hartsfield: That seemed to make it worse, Ken.
122:08:16 Mattingly: That's making it worse?
122:08:18 Hartsfield: Yes. That's probably the culprit, but let's...
122:08:19 Mattingly: Well, maybe that's my problem.
122:08:20 Hartsfield: ...try the third one while you're at it.
122:08:24 Mattingly: Okay.
122:08:44 Hartsfield: That makes the trace a lot better, Ken. I imagine it's the third one there.
122:08:52 Mattingly: Okay. I'll try changing those two out.
122:08:56 Hartsfield: Okay.
122:09:40 Mattingly: Boy, I'll tell you. That - that little Sun-angle change - old North and South Ray really stand out now. You couldn't miss those for anything.
122:10:00 Hartsfield: And, Ken, for your information, John and Charlie are almost through getting the ALSEP out.
122:10:10 Mattingly: Okay. Sounds good. Like an EVA should.
122:10:16 Hartsfield: Roger.
122:10:22 Mattingly: I know that's a bad one, but you know that's about all I can do for you today. That's probably safer than having you tell me jokes.
122:10:49 Mattingly: Okay. With the binocs on the area now, I'm looking down into North Ray Crater and South Ray and the interior structures of those two don't look quite the same. There's a lot more light and dark material in the South Ray; but that may be caused by the fact that it's just a- it really has been a fresher-appearing crater all around. The areas - trying to see if I can see any shadows or anything - There's a bright spot down there, but I think that's just a double spot itself. I don't see anything with the binocs that I could say I could see - I can't stabilize them quite that well. Coming down the traverse route from - where they're going across Survey Ridge - I don't think Survey is going to be easy to spot. And when you get down - there is one definite terrace - Looks like the - looks like Stone Mountain is formed with one, two, three terraces, but they are much larger than the kind of things that we were drawing on the map. The rest of that is very fine subtle lineations. The area around North Ray, particularly up along the area that they were going on the EVA - I can see it now, and it almost looks like that little pile of material that runs up to the south of their track and I'll give you some coordinates on that. I'm looking at my chart a - oh, let's see, 9 Charlie - yes, let's look at Chart 9 Charlie. And there's - this is a pretty lousy picture, but if you'll remember at a point about CY by 79, if you'll draw a line there and then draw a line down to about CU and 81, that's a - that represents a ridge, which shows up in the photographs. And looking down on it vertically, that looks like sort of a flow of material that runs up over the lip of North Ray and down into it. And it shows some craters on it, but it almost looks like a flow that runs up and down into North Ray rather than being some of the other kinds of things we've talked about. And I didn't have much time, I'll try to concentrate on that on the next rev.
122:13:31 Hartsfield: Roger. Good show, Ken.
122:13:55 Hartsfield: Ken, do you want the LM coordinates in lat-long or do you want it in coordinates on 9 Charlie?
122:14:03 Mattingly: Oh, I'd like to have it in 9 Charlie kind of coordinates. That's about the only thing I have to reference to.
122:14:08 Hartsfield: That's what I figured.
122:14:09 Mattingly: Let me see here if I can get - can get one last chance on our old friend that - Maybe and maybe see if he's decided to show his face this time. Don't let me forget the mapping camera, that comes about the same time.
122:14:57 Hartsfield: Casper, could you give us Auto on the High Gain?
122:15:04 Mattingly: Yes, sir. You have Auto.
122:15:58 Mattingly: I tell you, Hank, I think that the terminator got hung up here on a high mountain or something. It doesn't look like it's moving as much as it is everywhere else on the Moon.
122:16:09 Hartsfield: Roger. Is Davy still in the dark?
122:16:14 Mattingly: Well. I'm not to it yet, but it sure - I don't see anything beyond it. That's a - Hey, old Alphonsus and Arzachel show up nicely. And here comes the crater chain, by golly. Yes, but much to my amazement, but the peak in Albategnius is still - is in daylight.
122:18:04 Mattingly: Oh, I see what's happened now. There's a - there's a little hill that's shielding - I - I see where Davy Crater Chain is now. And it's right in the middle of a big long shadow that's being cast out there. And it's shielding that whole area because Davy and Davy Y show up nicely. And Davy G is easy to see. But the chain itself, I can just make out, and I'll take a picture - well, this is a skewed angle. I don't know if I can get it to show you, buy - they sure must not have much of a lip on them if they don't show. But, by the time we see them, they may be in a fairly high Sun.
121:19:00 Hartsfield: Roger; copy, Ken.
122:19:07 Mattingly: I'm taking a strip this time, anyhow, because it'll show all the area around Davy. And there are some craters in there - an awful lot of them that have absolutely no rims, which seems to me - it looks entirely different than what you see and what you think of. These things are all very subdued. They just drop in. And you see glows - in the low Sun, you see the - you see the far lip before you see the near lip of the crater. Although there are a few that have raised rims and they - they kind of are the exception here instead of the rule. Whereas most low-Sun-angle places we see are - I'll take a shot down just a little bit to the south there, and there the average is rimmed craters and very few rimless ones.
122:19:56 Hartsfield: Roger, Ken. And you're about 20 seconds from T-stop on the mapping camera.
122:20:02 Mattingly: Okay. Going to it. Thank you.
122:20:28 Mattingly: Okay; the Mapping Camera is Off. I'll wait 30 seconds.
122:20:20 Mattingly: And, Hank, this system is really good. I don't have to give a second thought to - to what's going on. And just by not having to watch that clock, it just frees your hands to go do everything else that you want to do. It really - on the back side, I get all bent out of shape with myself because I get - I get behind. I start - You just don't have a chance to do anything except those items which are timelined A, B, C and do them in exactly the sequence that they give you.
122:21:11 Hartsfield: Roger. The only hitch to this is I get interested in what you're saying and I might forget.
122:21:20 Mattingly: (Laughter) Well (laughter), just remember, they go on your card, the back side goes on mine.
122:21:31 Hartsfield: Actually, though, I got a bunch of guys backing me up.
122:21:38 Mattingly: Well, I tell you, this place is so fascinating that you just - you just don't dare let anything go by. It's - You know, I think you could stay here a lifetime, and never see it all. I guess that's - that's kind of a silly statement because it's true in almost anywhere you go. It sure is dramatic. At first glance, particularly the back side looks like an old gypsum plant. It just looks like someone's poured stuff all over it, and just made it - and just tried to hide it, camouflage things. The more you look at it, then you start to pick out subtle differences. Unfortunately, I'm not smart enough to know what these things mean, but I'm sure that we got some folks down there that certainly do. Maybe if we get enough data, why, they can piece it together.
122:22:39 Hartsfield: Are you in Standby now with that Mapping Camera, Ken?
122:22:45 Mattingly: Yes, sir. I went to Standby and took the Image Motion, Off.
122:22:48 Hartsfield: Okay, thank you.
122:22:50 Mattingly: Thank you. I forgot to tell you about it.
122:23:12 Mattingly: Paul, let me give you the reading on magazine SS before I forget it. I'm now at 35.
122:23:18 Hartsfield: Roger; 35.
122:23:21 Mattingly: And I guess we could - I guess we could sort of say we have filled the - the Davy square. I don't think we ought to keep trying that. Get a chance, why, we will, but I'm not going to keep trying after it.
122:23:59 Mattingly: And the zodiacal light I'll keep on - keep on XX.
122:24:05 Hartsfield: Roger; XX.
122:26:02 Mattingly: [Garble] for 20 seconds [garble] zodiacal light.
122:26:13 Mattingly: Oh, I'm sorry. I was playing my tape recorder back to myself.
122:28:09 Hartsfield: Ken, are you free right now?
122:28:17 Mattingly: Say again, Hank.
122:28:19 Hartsfield: Roger. Are you free right now? Are you doing something?
122:28:24 Mattingly: I'm setting up the camera for the zodiacal light. What do you need?
122:28:29 Hartsfield: Okay. I was just thinking. In case we lose comm, there is one little change. After we get LOS, where you have to configure the DSE, since we've added then this mapping camera pass - oblique, we want to get High Bit Rate instead of Low Bit Rate.
122:28:48 Mattingly: Okay. Let me write that down. Figuring it says Low, and you want me to go High. Okay; and if you'd remind me of that just before LOS.
122:29:05 Hartsfield: Roger; intend to - and - in regard to your comments about King, was there any other thing back - on the back side that you had of interest?
122:29:21 Mattingly: I - I found a couple of items back - mostly to the - I think almost all of the things that I had a chance to look at this time were to the - to the west of King. Between there and about AOS, I had a chance to look at the swirls, and to look at King - and a - and a crater - I first felt like I'd found - my first comment was that if there's ever a crater on the Moon that's got stratigraphy exposed, that's got to be it. And I hope that's wrong because there wasn't anywhere I was looking. And I took a picture of that one, and there was another little bright-rayed guy - a little splashed-out crater that looks like so many of the bright-rayed ones, except that it seems like he's built up on a mound. Got this - got this nice mound with this real bright crater in the center of it. And all the bright-rayed material is splashed around it. That too was - that was about south of Fleming, I think - somewhere in that neighborhood.
122:30:30 Hartsfield: Okay; we'll see if we can locate it.
122:37:08 Mattingly: Hey, Hank.
122:37:11 Hartsfield: Go ahead.
122:37:14 Mattingly: Would you tell me - confirm how many frames are on the magazine XX. Is it 70, total?
122:37:24 Hartsfield: Stand by.
122:38:21 Hartsfield: Ken, should be 48 total frames on the mag, and we show you 42 remaining.
122:38:36 Mattingly: Forty-eight total. Okay.
122:38:50 Mattingly: Okay; so I can take eight frames on this thing and still have plenty for the zodiacal light?
122:39:20 Hartsfield: That's correct, Ken.
122:39:24 Mattingly: Okay; there's one. This stuff isn't - just isn't as bright as it was even yesterday of - The first night it was really something.
122:39:46 Mattingly: There's number 2. And number 2 was not a part of a strip, but rather an interesting graben that runs through a crater. And I'm coming up on - I believe this is Grimaldi.
122:40:04 Hartsfield: Roger. We show you north of Grimaldi.
122:40:24 Mattingly: Why, that's where I recognized that - that double crater feature. Let's see -
122:40:41 Mattingly: You're right, I'm west. It's Riccioli.
122:40:49 Hartsfield: Can you see Riccioli C? That looks like in the map a double - a double-ring crater.
122:40:56 Mattingly: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's the one I thought was north of Grimaldi, and that's what I'm looking at here. Okay; this is the area where - I don't know if I can get a photo of the things I saw last night that were really interesting. They had some - it's not as bright - not sure I can see it all. Yeah, there it is. I don't know if this is gonna.
122:41:31 Mattingly: Okay, my third one here in this sequence was taken off the - of the crossed grabens in Grimaldi. And, as I commented before, when you look out in the dark, you get a very dramatic terminator, just like you do from the earthshine, just like you do from the - [garble] shine. And there's a place - I'll try to get a picture of this, because it shows - there's this bright thing on the horizon, which is obviously a big mountain chain and I would - It sticks up quite a number of degrees above the horizon. Okay; I guess that's - that's all I'm gonna try to take in this sequence and I'll get back to the - I'll take one up to the north here. There's some more interesting things. We'll still be safe.
122:42:54 Mattingly: Okay; okay, I'm now on frame 13. So that was frames whatever we had before up through 13. And I'm going back now to the zodiacal light configuration.
122:44:51 Mattingly: Sure do get some interesting sensations when you try to float around in a dark cockpit here, and you run into a camera or something, and you try to figure out what it was that just tapped you on the back.
122:45:01 Hartsfield: [Laughter.] Roger.
122:45:17 Mattingly: Okay; we're in configuration for zodiacal light.
122:45:33 Mattingly: Did you want me to do this at 123:05, on time? Is that correct?
122:45:40 Hartsfield: Ken, I guess you just don't start earlier than that.
122:45:47 Mattingly: I'm talking about the DSE now.
122:46:19 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston. Configure the DSE at 123:06.
122:46:26 Mattingly: 123:06, okay.
122:46:37 Hartsfield: I guess you can do that, and then start your zodiacal light any time after that.
122:46:45 Mattingly: The zodiacal light has to start on this PAD time, I think.
122:46:51 Hartsfield: You're correct.
122:47:13 Mattingly: Heys Hank, if you run into Plenty [?] around there somewhere, you might tell him that - ask him to tell Stoner and Temple that all those hours they put in configuring the CMS so that it'd have the right stowage and all the little goodies'd be in place, has certainly paid off. Man, I can run around, and I can reach for things and get it all done without - without feeling like I'm pressed for time. And it's thanks to their keeping that thing in flight configuration.
122:47:42 Hartsfield: Okay. I'll relate that, Ken.
122:49:40 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston. You're looking good at LOS, and you got about a minute to go. Don't forget your DSE.
122:49:48 Mattingly: Okay. Thank you very much. See you in about 40.
122:49:51 Hartsfield: Roger.
122:55:25 Mattingly (CM onboard): That was a flash. I know it was.
122:55:40 Mattingly (CM onboard): 123:07, that had to be below the horizon.
122:55:51 Mattingly (CM onboard): At 123:07, I was looking in an area - Let me see where it started at now. Well, I don't want this to get out, but I think you might - you might make a note that at 123:07, I was looking out the window, and I was looking at the horizon and there was a horizon, and there was a bright flash that I saw. It was below the horizon. Now whether that was - Maybe I saw one of these light flashes that everyone else has been seeing all day and that I have not seen yet, or maybe I saw a flash. I don't know. It was a [garble], was a bright flash. It could have been one of these light flashes that everyone else sees. But I'm going to look at this same area again. Now back to the zodiacal light. Blah. Get the feeling I've been all day with my nose pinned to the window. Trying to get these star patterns here [garble] I was looking at [garble]. 30938, coming up on T-start. Okay, [garble] on.
122:57:50 Mattingly (CM onboard): Mark; 6, 7, 38 [garble]. go again [garble]. Take two pictures [garble].
122:59:50 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, there's 1 minute.
123:00:10 Mattingly (CM onboard): [garble] seconds to go, [garble] seconds [garble] exposure [garble
123:00:59 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, 40 seconds [garble].
123:01:49 Mattingly (CM onboard): Get the [garble] Stand by [garble].
123:02:06 Mattingly (CM onboard): The next frame will be for 60 seconds [garble].
123:02:40 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, [garble] for 60 seconds. Stand by; [garble] 60 seconds. Stand by [garble].
123:03:14 Mattingly (CM onboard): [garble] for 20 seconds [garble].
123:03:44 Mattingly (CM onboard): Stand by [garble]. Another [garble]. Stand by [garble].
123:04:47 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, stand by. Stand by [garble] next exposure will be for 30 seconds, 30 seconds from start.
123:05:40 Mattingly (CM onboard): Stand by [garble].
123:05:52 Mattingly (CM onboard): [garble] second exposure [garble].
123:06:15 Mattingly (CM onboard): [garble] Stand by -
123:06:20 Mattingly (CM onboard): Close [garble].
123:06:49 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, ready.
123:07:01 Mattingly (CM onboard): Stand by to close [garble].
123:07:12 Mattingly (CM onboard): Stand by for the T-64 [?].
123:07:42 Mattingly (CM onboard): Ten seconds to [garble] second [garble
123:07:58 Mattingly (CM onboard): Ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Okay, it's all there [garble]. Stand by for [garble] 64. Stand by [garble].
123:08:33 Mattingly (CM onboard): Sixteen, 17, 18, 19...
123:08:37 Mattingly (CM onboard): Close. I'll go back to the [garble
123:09:12 Mattingly (CM onboard): Stand by for [garble] 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ten [garble].
123:09:44 Mattingly (CM onboard): Stand by [garble] seconds [garble]. 8, 9...
123:09:57 Mattingly (CM onboard): Close [garble].
123:10:51 Mattingly (CM onboard): Close. Okay, [garble] 3, 4...
123:11:01 Mattingly (CM onboard): Close [garble]. up [garble].
123:11:16 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay.
123:11:51 Mattingly (CM onboard): One [garble] 2 [garble] 26, 27, 28, [garble].
123:12:35 Mattingly (CM onboard): [garble] 60; 60.
123:15:34 Mattingly (CM onboard): [garble] 35274, 25. About a minute to spare. Good. How did we work out all that kind of tight? Okay. Can't believe anyone would really do this if they were serious about getting their data.
123:16:12 Mattingly (CM onboard): Zodiacal light [garble].
123:16:29 Mattingly (CM onboard): That's probably [garble
123:17:29 Mattingly (CM onboard): That's [garble
123:18:46 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay.
123:19:04 Mattingly (CM onboard): Image Motion On. There's a barber pole. And it's gray.
123:19:19 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay, we're in attitude at 31:05, and we're supposed to start at 31:12. Oh-ho. Would you have believed all that? Mapping Camera is On. Image Motion is going barber pole plus 1, 2, 3. A-okay. Then I guess we're obligated to humor the Flight Surgeon and change the sensors.
123:20:07 Mattingly (CM onboard): Oh, very well.
123:20:48 Mattingly (CM onboard): And here's a whole lot of those crow's feet patterns over here on the back side just past the terminator. Let's see where we are. One, 2, 3.
123:21:49 Mattingly (CM onboard): Holy smoke! That's Mandel'shtam I'm looking at, and from here, I didn't even recognize it, I'm so close, but that's it. And in the floor of Mandel'shtam, there is a definite - there's a definite flow that's along the floor there with another [garble] flows. There's a definite ridge line there in Mandel'shtam. You can see a subtle flow pattern; it runs into the crater. And then in - down in the crater shadow, with the binocs, I can see things I can't see with my eyeball. And I can see that there is a rille that runs down inside that thing; looks like the same sort of thing that shows that flow pattern on the outside that follows that scarp. And here is another band of this thing, and this thing curves around now and gets lost over here. Get a quick pic of that, and that should be 28. I'm using 5.6 and 1/125. Let's see if we can get a picture of that thing. No, I bet I've already missed it. Bigger than life, I let it get away from me. Even a poor camera that automatically set itself would be an improvement.
123:23:46 Mattingly (CM onboard): I['ve] crossed Mandel'shtam and come out. The material out here doesn't seem to show - Well, most of these big craters have - have wet pies [?] at the bottoms. They characteristically have something that looks like the little - ripples, concentric ejecta patterns [garble] the fact that they're small and very limited in duration, vary in size; they just go out a little ways. The smaller craters - actually, their crater count here is much smaller than it is in a lot of places. This is - from a small scale, the crater count's relatively low. There are more of the large craters back here. And we see some areas now where there is just an awful lot of craters, and I'm looking in an area here that I'll get a picture of. We'll call this frame - Oh, come on. Boy, there's not enough room for me and this camera.
123:24:59 Mattingly (CM onboard): Okay; that was frame number 10 of magazine Victor, and that should show a whole lot of rimless craters in a very textured area that's in this large crater rim just to the - just to the west of Mandel'shtam. I guess I'm going to have to knock this off now and go back to the sensors, or I'll have a direct call from my boss.
123:26:39 Mattingly (CM onboard): And we'll be off comm for a minute.
123:38:56 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston.
123:39:02 Mattingly: Hello there.
123:39:03 Hartsfield: Hello. How'd it go on that rev?
123:39:10 Mattingly: Well, that's right interesting. On the zodiacal light, I got it done and took the last frame just as the Sun - I took the frame and it said stop the tape and the Sun came up. So, I guess that all worked out pretty good. In the process, I missed the settings for a quarter of a second and possibly one of them for a half because when I turned the filter, it came off. And I figured there wasn't any sense in taking it with the filter in other than its 90-degree positions. But the rest of the stuff - managed to get done on time and we rolled out at 31:09 and turned the Mapping Camera, On, at 31:09. So, you missed about six seconds.
123:40:00 Hartsfield: Roger. Copy.
123:40:03 Mattingly: I guess the - it was - maybe that was - maybe I made it. It was right close - yeah, 31:12 was when you wanted it. That was a tight maneuver.
123:40:34 Hartsfield: Ken, you have your 9 Charlie handy?
123:41:01 Mattingly: Okay, Hank. Go ahead.
123:41:02 Hartsfield: Okay. Our best guess for the LM is at coordinates 80 and Charlie Alfa 0.7. That's about 200 meters northwest of Double Spot.
123:41:23 Mattingly: Okay. That's 80 and Charlie Alfa 0.7.
123:41:28 Hartsfield: That's affirmative.
123:41:36 Mattingly: Okay. We'll go take a look.
123:41:42 Hartsfield: And, I do have one other Flight Plan change for you.
123:41:45 Mattingly: Thank you very much.
123:41:53 Hartsfield: That occurs at 126:44.
123:41:54 Mattingly: All righty.
123:42:15 Mattingly: Okay, go ahead.
123:42:16 Hartsfield: Okay. You know we told you earlier we didn't really want to play around with that mass spec boom. So, we want to delete the "Mass spec retract to 8.4 feet."
123:42:29 Mattingly: Okay, that's deleted.
123:42:31 Hartsfield: And, at 1 - 128:29, since we didn't pull it back , we don't need to deploy it again. We can delete the "Mass spec deploy."
123:43:12 Mattingly: Hank, are you still there?
123:43:14 Hartsfield: Roger. Did you copy that last?
123:43:19 Mattingly: No, you just stopped talking it sounded like.
123:43:22 Hartsfield: Oh - okay...
123:43:23 Mattingly: You want me to delete the boom retraction.
123:43:27 Hartsfield: Okay, at 128:29, there - delete "Mass spec deploy."
123:43:42 Mattingly: Okay, that's because it is already out.
123:43:45 Hartsfield: That's affirmative.
123:43:50 Hartsfield: And, Ken, your biomed data looks good now and I guess that's about all I got for you at AOS. Did you see anything on this last back side that is worthy of comment?
123:44:03 Mattingly: Ah - yeah. Around Mandel'shtam, I was looking at some interesting flow features. And, again, I am using the flow feature - that's the kind of appearance it has - not that's what it is. And, right at AOS - oh, maybe 3 minutes after AOS - I mean IDS -
123:47:31 Mattingly: Hank, right now I am looking at - coming on across Smythii and I'm looking at some features there that - up on one of the - of the subdued filled-in craters that we see on the northern edge - I - well, it's out - out of where I can reach it now, what I - what I was looking at was a crater that's - all subdued and typical of those features in Smythii. It had an outer ring and I think probably the crater I was looking at is the one that's about -
123:48:25 Hartsfield: Hit Auto in the High Gain, Casper, when you get a chance.
123:48:31 Mattingly: Okay, you've got Auto. I guess the one I was looking at is the one that's on the map about 85 degrees - no, make that about 84 degrees east and about 2 degrees south - There's a large one there. And on the northeast side of it, there is a little bright-rayed crater that I - first caught my eye. And, then there's an arcuate pattern that goes with it that's concentric to this large crater. And this bright crater is right at the head of it. This concentric material is a very light color - and if it were in a straight line, you would say it was ray material. It's possible - it doesn't look like a raised rim like the other rims on the concentric crater on the big basin. However, it looks like this little bright-rayed crater is right at the head of it. And it is - the bright-rayed crater appears to be domed up in just a slight rise and then this bright crater in top of it. And then what looks like this other ring, which is concentric to the big crater. We ought to have that on pan stuff, so I won't worry about it. Because it is almost directly into the ground track.
123:50:07 Hartsfield: Roger. Can you see Neper from there?
123:50:13 Mattingly: Not now. I probably could have then.
123:50:26 Hartsfield: How far to the - either side of the ground track do you think you can adequately see?
123:50:35 Mattingly: Not very far. These windows really - You're really restricted. Let me see if I can give you a gouge here.
123:50:44 Hartsfield: I was just curious. We are going to be coming by La Perouse and Kapteyn here shortly and I just wondered if you could get a look at their central features.
123:50:52 Mattingly: Yeah. I know you can't see - Oh, I'm almost positive you can't see that far.
123:51:26 Mattingly: We're flying - what a - north - south of Blagg right now, right? So, that means my window number 3 is straight down.
123:51:37 Hartsfield: That's affirmative.
123:52:15 Mattingly: Okay, I've got - ol' La Perouse and Ansgarius.
123:52:29 Mattingly: Well, wait a minute - maybe not.
123:52:42 Mattingly: Okay, I can see La Perouse. I missed him. I got out here a little bit too late.
123:52:58 Mattingly: I should be looking at the two I was always getting confused here. And, that - must be getting pretty close to a subsolar point, because the terrain features are really hard to distinguish. I do see Kapteyn and Langrenus A. And the central feature in Langrenus A is more obvious than the one in Kapteyn from the Sun angle.
123:53:41 Hartsfield: You just passed the subsolar point, Ken, about three or four minutes ago.
123:53:48 Mattingly: Yeah, it's pretty hard to see things, although I guess I'm equally impressed with how much you can see in - certainly see a lot more than these photographs have shown us.
123:54:05 Hartsfield: You are over the Maclaurin series now.
123:54:16 Mattingly: Yeah, I have trouble with them up here just like I did in school.
123:55:32 Mattingly: Okay, I am looking at the central peaks in Langrenus and you can see blocks with the telescope here.
123:55:51 Mattingly: There's actually some fairly large ones on the - on the western slopes of the eastern part of the horseshoe. And there appear to be an awful lot of them in the little alluvium fan that appears to be out to the south.
123:56:43 Mattingly: And, I am trying to look at some of those dark patches that are in the southern walls. They look like flat dark blobs of material that are in - along the terraced material. And I really can't make out a great deal. Terraces in this area are - are extremely wide and fairly steep . And the walls here look relatively steep compared to the other walls around the Moon.
123:58:11 Mattingly: This is really a nice attitude for viewing things. I can see Petavius and it stacks up - great big central peak - I think that's Petavius because Petavius B is down there.
124:00:37 Mattingly: Okay, I am looking at Messier and Messier A and they're - around the elongate of the two, there doesn't appear to be anything you can pick up with binoculars except it looks kind of mottled. The interiors slope like all the rest. The interior didn't look particularly different - on - the rounded one, it looks like there is a resistant - several resistant layers in the sides, and I'll get a picture of those. In fact. they're standing out. And, it does look like there is a connection between the two craters. Some subtle thing that comes out in the direction of the tails and, then as you come out to the west, there's some darker material that runs out and looks smooth and stands out and comes out into the mare and it - almost looks like dark material might be - might be - might be a result of the crater although I'm sure that the white - the light streaks on the - are the things that are supposed to be coming out -
124:02:13 Mattingly: It does appear to be, though, that when I look at the - I've got a place now where I can see the light tail and the - and the regular mare together and I got a picture of that. That's frame number 14 [AS16-120-19196] on magazine Victor. And that - It looks to me like there is a higher crater count of large craters in the light-rayed material than there is in the darker material.
124:02:47 Hartsfield: Say that again, Ken, about the crater count.
122:02:52 Mattingly: It looks like it's higher in the light-rayed material than it is in the darker stuff, which is, I guess, what you would anticipate.
124:03:21 Mattingly: If you are a fan of bright-rayed craters, frame number 15 [AS16-120-19197] is one of those, just coming up on - oh, lost my place.
124:03:55 Mattingly: Yeah, it's about halfway between - oh, the beginning of the highlands - Gutenberg Highlands, and - where Censorinus is.
124:04:13 Hartsfield: Roger.
124:05:01 Mattingly: And, Hank, at this higher Sun angle now when we get down here and we look at this place where the - where we're talking about the bright rays that seem to take a Funny shape between Midler and a little crater out to the east of him. It's not real obvious now that there is anything more than some bright material in between it.
124:05:25 Hartsfield: Roger.
124:05:43 Mattingly: I'll tell you, these Sun angles really can play tricks on you, and I'm looking at Midler now, and I got a real good view of him. And we discussed the possibility of having material come in from the north and run down inside of him. And it's not that obvious when you look down on him from here. There's material that runs over - you see a little high. As you look down inside, you see light and dark material, the same kind of combination you see in other craters. With the naked eye, it looks very much like - there's an expression that says that this ridge to the north ran down inside there and formed that little tongue. But when you look at it in blown-up detail, you see some vertical - well, now I can see places where I can see a flow pattern that's run down in. And, as a matter of fact, I'll get a picture real fast [AS16-120-19198]. Hope that gets it.
124:06:42 Hartsfield: Do you think that - just looking at a map here - do you think that what you're seeing could be an expression of the rim of Nectaris?
124:06:52 Mattingly: No. No, I sure don't because this has a nice margin, and it curves down in and rolls down as though it had - it starts where there's a little terrace - a little - looks like part of a cratered terrace. And it runs down inside and it runs out and forms that central feature, and it runs down on the floor. And it certainly appears that it came and rolled down on there after the crater and all its slump features were already there. We'll have to come back to the question of its relation to Theophilus.
124:07:26 Hartsfield: Roger.
124:09:20 Hartsfield: Ken, for your information, John and Charlie are at Flag now.
124:09:29 Mattingly: Okay, I'll wave to them. I'll tell you, NASA needs to recruit some octopuses. I could really use a couple of more hands.
124:09:45 Hartsfield: (Laughter) Roger.
124:10:13 Mattingly: Okay, I'm going to concentrate on North Ray as I distinctly believe that the - area that the traverse drawn on that goes up on the North Ray comes up on a - material that looks like it has flowed around and is part of the basic furrowed Descartes unit that's mapped back further to the east. And it looks to me like it runs down around the crater and - and straight into it.
124:11:04 Mattingly: I can see evidence of stratigraphy in North Ray, and lots of it in South Ray. And as we come across at - boy, I'll tell you, the - the general topography down there looks about the same all the way across the board.
124:13:57 Mattingly: And just at a cursory glance, we're coming up on Albategnius now and that material that's over to the east of it - that kind of hummocky and undulating material and it's furrowed. And it looks very much like the material around Descartes. I said it did in a very low Sun, and it has the appearance of having many of those same characteristics.
124:14:55 Hartsfield: Have you got pretty good shadows in this area now, Ken?
124:15:01 Mattingly: The shadows are right here coming across Albategnius. They're pretty well cleared out. You just get the shadows from the very big peaks. At Ptolemaeus, it's almost completely clear of shadows. Alphonsus still has some. I can pick out the crater chain now. It's just now getting out of the shadow, and, sure enough, there is a great big little ridge that lays across the front of it that's been masking it all this time. The floor of Ptolemaeus looks to be like all the rest of the Cayley material. It's got a great deal of craters as you can see from the pictures. I would say the preponderance of them are rimless. As they get a little larger, they start to form with a - very - a very subtle rim, so I guess I can't say that they're all rimless. There is one, looks like a fracture, about in the middle, and it may be a scarp that's caused by a fracture, or it may be a flow pattern.
124:16:51 Mattingly: And as we come upon Davy chain, it appears that they do have - they don't each have an individual rim. There is mottled material in this area, and I'm going to try and get that magazine. I think you need to see this. Can you give me the settings for the - so we can take a picture of this real fast.
124:17:18 Hartsfield: Stand by.
124:17:33 Mattingly: Using VHBW.
124:17:42 Hartsfield: Okay. I'll - we see if we can get them, Ken.
124:17:47 Mattingly: Okay. I'm going to take one here now at - that was 5.6 and t/125 I'll take a 250th. Second one's a 250th. And that ought to bracket it, I hope. And that's of the crater chain itself. And it just - it appears that they're essentially rimless, but the whole area down there is kind of mottled.
124:18:16 Hartsfield: Roger. Did you use the EL for that?
124:18:17 Mattingly: It's a very pretty scarp. No, I used VHBW.
124:18:51 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston. You're coming up in about 20 seconds to a T-stop.
124:18:53 Mattingly: I sure am. Okay. Thank you. Give me a call at T-stop.
124:19:12 Hartsfield: Mark it; T-stop.
124:19:17 Mattingly: Okay. We're at T-stop. Thank you.
124:19:32 Mattingly: Okay, that's - We're now in frame 36 on magazine SS.
124:19:50 Hartsfield: Okay. You can go - Standby on a Mapping Camera and Image Motion, Off.
124:20:00 Mattingly: Okay. Standby and Image Motion, Off. Barber pole - gray.
124:20:21 Mattingly: It's very interesting, Hank. I've got a little stranger back here that's trailing me. Must be one of Casper's friends.
124:20:29 Hartsfield: All righty. We'll...
124:20:30 Mattingly: Got a little light's just sitting out there. I guess he's - I have no idea how far away it is, you know, though - I have the impression it's like ten feet, but it could be 100 feet or 1000 feet. But it's apparently some little particle that's in orbit with me, and it's - it's probably rotating, because it's winking. I first saw these last night, and I thought I'd seen something on the ground. Then I realized I'd - it was moving at the same rate I was and every now and then I look out and I see these particles that are reflecting around me.
124:21:07 Hartsfield: If you see a blue one winking, you'd better pull over.
124:21:10 Mattingly: Mass spec guys might be interested. (Laughter) Yeah, if I hear someone say, "Beep, beep," I'll wake the SPS or something.
124:21:28 Mattingly: The mass spec guys might be interested in that though.
124:21:32 Hartsfield: Okay. They're listening.
124:23:48 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston.
124:23:53 Mattingly: Go ahead.
124:23:54 Hartsfield: Roger. To make up some of the SIM Bay data we lost here, we'd like to make a real-time change here, since we've got to maneuver over to the north oblique here in about 40 minutes or so. We'd just like to now make a maneuver to plus-X SIM Bay, and we'll take SIM Bay data until you have to roll on over to the north oblique.
124:24:21 Mattingly: I understand you'd like for me to go to plus-X forward SIM Bay attitude now.
124:24:26 Hartsfield: That's affirmative.
124:24:32 Mattingly: Okay. I can do that and eat at the same time.
124:25:36 Mattingly: Henry, I understand you want me to go to the north oblique photo attitude.
124:25:40 Hartsfield: Negative. Now we just want you to go to the plus-X SIM Bay.
124:25:43 Mattingly: Or just to the - Okay, fine.
124:29:10 Hartsfield: You playing music, Ken?
124:29:14 Mattingly: Yes, sir. How do you like Mahler from space?
124:29:19 Hartsfield: Sounds all right.
124:29:21 Mattingly: I know you don't like him even - you don't even like him at home. I'll tell you, this has got to be absolutely sinful - too much fun to be [garble].
124:30:09 Hartsfield: Okay. I see you're at attitude.
124:30:18 Mattingly: Hey, thank you. Good call. That'll keep me from having to do it again.
124:30:27 Hartsfield: And, Ken, to fill you in, what we're after is to get as much of the SIM Bay data as we can, since we missed some of it. The alpha part[icle] especially needs a lot of it, and - if you've got you Flight Plan in front of you, at - at 125:15, we are supposed to now - then move over to the 40 degrees north oblique. FAO says that maneuver takes a maximum of three minutes. So if you could delay starting that until whatever you figure is a reasonable time before the mapping camera T-start, then we can - we can get a pretty good slug of data in there.
124:31:08 Mattingly: Okay. Be glad to do that. How's our little laser coming along? Is it doing any better or any worse? I guess we haven't had it on since you gave me your report, though.
124:31:38 Hartsfield: It's still toddling, Ken. I guess when we get it back running again, we'll be getting about 80 percent with it.
124:31:49 Mattingly: Okay. Is that latter [laser?] network working, or has it got a different problem?
124:31:54 Hartsfield: It's working okay, Ken.
124:33:03 Mattingly: Hank, can I give you some comments that are not really pertinent to anything we're doing, but little observations that I had a chance to make, and I'm afraid I'll forget them. I got too many things stored up in my head now.
124:33:18 Hartsfield: Okay. Go ahead.
124:33:19 Mattingly: But - one of - one of the things, I was just sitting here looking at the equipment and some of the things that have caused more interest than others in what we were doing. And - one of the things that is at the heart of a lot of your time in this spacecraft is fixing something to eat. Now, I'm - without discussing whether or not you need to eat this much, just the idea that if you try to eat part of it, it takes an awful long time to fix each of these things. And one of the big hang-ups is we all get clustered around the water gun. We've talked about gas coming out of the water gun, and this is not the drink port, but the food-preparation station. And the - if you - one of the ways we found we could induce gas bubbles into the waker was by depressing the plunger before it had had a chance to complete its stroke. If you let it complete its stroke, it seems to give you a nice, relatively gas-free shot of water. And it looks like the hot water gives you more for an ounce than the cold water does. But if you're very meticulous about waiting until you're sure that the plunger has made its full travel, and then count to ten or something before you push it again, the cold water isn't quite as short as it looks like it is. And I don't really know how to explain why we have gas bubbles sometimes and why we don't. It's almost as though the gas separator may not affect the problem. We started out and the first couple of days we didn't have any gas. I guess about two days. Then on the third day, we started getting gas in the hot water and we were getting like 50 percent gas. We tried the cigar gas separator, and that - that - after we got it flushed out the first time, seemed to work pretty well. And then it started getting gas, so we decided to try the prototype model. Then when we put it on the feed station - why, as soon as we put it on, why, we made a squirt and nothing came out, and we decided to try it again. And by then, it was obvious that it was building up pressure inside, and the food station was putting out water, and it wasn't coming out the other end. And we never did get water to come out the - the outlet side of the new gas separator. And it looks like it has a crack in the top on the inlet side, and the gas - the water was bubbling out of that. It was coming out under pressure. When we took the thing off, why, you could tell that the check valve or something, had never been opened. So we really don't know whether that thing has an effective use or not. And it - it seems like the more water you use, the more gas you get. I don't - I'm not sure I completely understand that. You get more gas in the hot water than you do in the cold water. But the water I've been getting out today and yesterday has been almost gas-free spin it up here, and I won't get - I get a zone of less than ten percent gas. And that's ten percent of a seven-ounce food - juice bag. The other day we were getting 50 percent. And I really can't psych out exactly all the causes for it. The cigar food - cigar dispenser there has some problems of its own. And every time you get through with it, it dribbles. And it will dribble for quite a while. But I found out if you put the little cap on it right away, then it quits dribbling. And it's only that initial dribble, and the rest of it from there on is easy. I really don't expect anything to be done with these comments. I just want to - we're supposed to evaluate these things, Hank. And rather than write them down - it's a lot easier to put here, and I'll get it off the tape after the flight.
124:37:56 Hartsfield: Okay. I took notes there on most of that.
124:38:01 Mattingly: Okay. I'm sorry. I should have told you first. I really wasn't anticipating you having to copy all that. I'm kind of rambling and being verbose. But I can see that I'm not going to get everything I see written down and probably ought to go ahead and get it jotted down some way.
124:39:37 Hartsfield: Ken, it looks like the next action in the Flight Plan for you is around 125:13 where it says "GDC align." I think we've scratched out everything ahead of that.
124:40:01 Mattingly: Okay. I'm taking advantage of that to get a little eating done, and maybe we can have a chance to look at the backside this time.
124:40:08 Hartsfield: Okay.
124:44:24 Mattingly: Hank, there's one other thing I'd like to comment on before I forget it.
124:44:29 Hartsfield: Go ahead.
124:44:33 Mattingly: That's the cockpit temperature. I've been noticing a little gauge, and it (laughter) - it doesn't ever move. I think it's got a - I think it's plugged into a dummy load somewhere. But the cockpit temperature does, in fact, change quite a bit. And on the way out, in PTC with the three of us in here, it never really got cool enough even for people as warmblooded as Charlie and I. And we were wondering, you know, gee, if it was like that in PTC, what was it going to he like when we got in orbit. And the first day in orbit there, it was - it really was kind of hot and stuffy. And I don't know when it got cool, but last night it was nice and cool. And, in fact, I woke up this morning because I was cold. That was the reason I woke up. And in the past, I've had a hard time sleeping sometimes, because it was warm. I don't know whether that's a - that's caused by going to the 60-circular orbit, or whether that's caused by having only one body to take care of in here, instead of three. But it was very obvious. Unfortunately, we'd get a chance to - I couldn't tell you yesterday. I was wearing a suit, and so it was never really comfortable most of the day. Maybe when John and Charlie get back, we'll notice again, and see if it gets hot again.
124:49:29 Hartsfield: Casper, Houston. We're about two minutes from LOS, and everything's looking good from this end.
124:49:41 Mattingly: Okay, Hank. You're cutting out; I understand.
