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02 23 44 48
Bill Anders (LMP): You should see the horizon now in the top of your picture.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We have the horizon, Bill.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Bill Anders (LMP): I believe these are the craters now Bassett and See.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. If you have the polarizing filter handy, try flipping it in front, would you?
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, as a matter of interest, there's a lot of what appears to be very small new craters that have these little white rays radiating from them.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We see the filter going over it. Apollo 8, this is Houston. Looks like we have too much light. The polarizing filter doesn't help much. Go ahead and remove it again.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. It's removed.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Looks like we just got —
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. We're just passing over the crater Borman, and there's Anders out there; Lovell is right south of it.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. The TV is breaking up now. Okay. We are back with a good picture. Looks like we just have too much light. Our definition is rather weak.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Also, we're fogging up the window here, Houston, among other problems.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. The other window is better than that one.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Much better picture, Bill; much better.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Alright. The right side of the camera is pointing retrograde. We are now passing abeam of the crater Houston; I will show the camera over there once for the folks in Texas.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): It's a big and sprawly one; it's got those two impact craters, one to the right and one to the left.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
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Bill Anders (LMP): How's your picture?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Still about the same, Bill. It's—the terrain's pretty bright. We are not getting much definition at all; definition on this side is much much better.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I think—Okay. We are leaving the window; that gives you an idea how bad our window is.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. This picture now is much better; I guess the light levels are decreasing now.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We are coming up on the crater Collins.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. What crater is that just going off.
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Bill Anders (LMP): That's some small impact crater.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): We will call it John Aaron's.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Bill Anders (LMP): If he'll keep looking at the systems anyway.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): He just quit looking.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, another ID feature: these small impact craters have dark spots in the center where it appears that they buried in it and hit some new material down below and scattered a lot of fine white dust around them.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand, Jim.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8. This is Houston. Looks like we can see Collins now.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. There is Collins for you.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): And Collins is right on the edge of Smythe's Sea which we are about to pass over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8. This is —
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Bill Anders (LMP): We are now going across the Smythe Sea. Go ahead.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We just saw a Stellenword go by.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. He was really in a hurry.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Picture is much improved now; getting better all the time.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. The terrain here is, as you can see, not well defined. We are going to start a roll to the left, in order to come across the target area, with the television —
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): — landing site area.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
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Bill Anders (LMP): How is that crater in—right in the middle look now?

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