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               APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPrION


03 15 33 44   cc       Roger.

              LMP      For our interp - If we can extrapolate from the
                       samples returned by other missions.

              LMP     Amazing how far over - now the highlands to the
                      west of Procellarum are - still are bright, and the
                      contrast between fresh craters and the normal high­
                      land are very - are very obvious still in earthlight,
                      particularly along the zero phase point with respect
                      to the Earth. Rima Gamma now is - is coming a lit­
                      tle bit closer to our oval track in the horseshoe
                      in the - larger and more western end of it; the
                      dark horseshoe is quite clear in this light. It's
                      a west - or northwest-pointing horseshoe, as is the
                      complete trend of that strange feature. I think
                      Ron is going to have an excellent chance to study
                      these light-colored swirls within the mare and
                      other parts of the Moon. We had some good views
                      of them and Mare Marginis and to the east of
                      Crisium - Mare Crisium, and he should - if there
                      is anything to be seen, he should be able to see
                      it for - during the next few days.

              CC       Okeydoke.

03 15 35 50   CDR     Say, Gordo, something I just noticed here in work­
                      ing with the GDC what-have-you. I - looked at the
                      Pc gage, and in the Pz - Pc position, there is a
                      continuous bias on it now of about, oh, 7 percent,
                      and if I switch to ALPHA, it goes to zero. We never
                      saw that bias before this last burn.

              CC      Roger, Gene.

03 15 36 35   LMP     Hey, Gordy, I'm looking right up the western edge
                      of the Procellarum mare where it contacts the -
                      the - the high - western highlands of the Moon, and
                      we're just about to fly a little bit south of
                      Grimaldi. That edge is very irregular. There is
                      no obvious indications that it - there are large
                      basins that have been flooded by mare that have
                      formed that edge, but, again, the topographic dis­
                      tinction's possible in this lighter small. Now I'm
                      starting to see that there are shadows in the craters.