Once on the surface, Surveyor 1 took over 11,100 images of the lunar landscape during its six-week mission. Oceanus Procellarum - Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi Southwest Oceanus Procellarum - posted in Sketching: The Ocean of Storms is more than 2,500 km. The image was taken in the lunar afternoon such that the sun in low on the western horizon and the 3.3 meter tall spacecraft casts a long shadow (almost 15 m long) to the east [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Surveyor 1 landed in the southwest region of Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) on June 2, 1966, three months after the Soviet’s Luna 9 had soft-landed on the lunar surface. Chinese lunar samples suggest moon cooled the Moon Fig. Oceanus Procellarum Accurate estimates of mare basalt ages are necessary to place constraints on the duration and the flux of lunar volcanism as well as on the petrogenesis of lunar mare basalts and their relationship to the thermal evolution of the Moon. Surveyor Document ID. Published: July 12, 2018. The third time, the lander settled down to a soft-landing at 00:04:17 UT April 20, 1967, in the southeastern region of Oceanus Procellarum at 3 degrees south latitude and 23.41 degrees west longitude. Unique wide-angle hand mosaic of Surveyor I's shadow on the Oceanus Procellarum, June 13, 1966, 66 gelatin silver prints mounted, each approximately 6 x 6 inches (150 x 150 mm), 18 x 59 inches (460 x 1500 mm) overall, matted and framed. Zoals alle maria werd de Oceanus Procellarum gevormd door vloedbasalten die een … Surveyor 1 — Wikipédia The opaque minerals in the lunar rocks from Oceanus Procellarum