Talk:Surveyor 1

Engineering interrogations?
What, exactly, is an engineering interrogation? 198.24.6.134 (talk) 23:47, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Wrong science
"...Any radio communications with Surveyor 1 required a "line-of-sight" from its location to the Earth, and this is not available during the lunar nights..."

Surveyor 1 landed in the Ocean of Storms. The Earth is permanently visible in the sky from there. That's true whether or not the Sun is shining on that part of the surface. So line-of-sight to the Earth is never a problem from the Ocean of Storms. As the Earth rotates, different receiving stations can gain or lose line-of-sight. But the lunar lighting conditions don't affect line-of-sight.

The subsequent comment about the need for sunlight to power the solar cells for communication is correct.

IMO, the quoted sentence should be dropped.

Iamhondo (talk) 18:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC) Joe

Landing Site Image
Full-moon image with this historic site marked might be helpful, don't you think? Perhaps more so than a couple of orbit-shots of generic stretches of pock-marked lunar surface.68.178.50.46 (talk) 13:55, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Landing weight or mass
The article makes a distinction between launch weight and landing weight ... however, for the numbers given in the article, it would have had to nearly double in mass to achieve the given launch weight. Do these numbers in fact refer to mass? Guinness2702 (talk) 13:53, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Upside-down photograph of shadow on the lunar surface
The black-and-white photograph of the shadow of Surveyor 1 on the lunar surface should be rotated 180 degrees, because it's upside-down (as I see it here on tuesday the 17th of september, 2019). DannyJ.Caes (talk) 13:37, 17 September 2019 (UTC)