50 Years After Historic Moon Mission, Brown Geologist Shares Stories From Mission Control
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 10 (TNSOps) -- Brown University issued the following news release:
At first, Apollo 15 astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin didn't quite believe what they were seeing. During an excursion in their lunar rover -- the first such vehicle deployed to the Moon -- the astronauts spied flecks of green breaking the grayish white monotony of the lunar surface.
"[Are you] sure it's green and not just white albedo again?" Irwin ask . . .
At first, Apollo 15 astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin didn't quite believe what they were seeing. During an excursion in their lunar rover -- the first such vehicle deployed to the Moon -- the astronauts spied flecks of green breaking the grayish white monotony of the lunar surface.
"[Are you] sure it's green and not just white albedo again?" Irwin ask . . .