Talk:Surveyor 2

Surveyor 2 repeated
There's something wrong with this article, it does not read correctly. It starts by discussing Surveyor 2 and the timings of its mission and crash. Then it talks about an apparent successor also called Surveyor 2 with its timings. I don't know the facts, could someone correct this please? Colin99 19:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I've deleted the second paragraph. It was largely a duplicate, and the extra detail it contained seemed to me excessive. Lancevortex (talk) 22:33, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Misleading picture
All Surveyor articles use the same photo of a Surveyor craft. In all atricles it should clearly be stated that the craft pictured is a different Surveyor craft than the one discussed in the article.

It is especially misleading in this article since Surveyor 2 crashed on the surface of the moon, but the picture shows a properly landed craft standing on the surface of the moon.

The impact velocity
Is likely to be higher than lunar escape velocity (5300 mph), and indeed I found a reference that said "nearly 6000 mph," which is similar to the Ranger impact velocities. The previous reference in the article ("1500 mph") was to a news article, and the reporter doesn't give his source or reasoning. The only possibility for a slower impact than escape velocity that the retrorocket, which was ignited, had slowed the craft. However, since it was tumbling, this rocket was as likely to speed it up as to slow it down. In any case, all contact was lost once the retro was ignited, so I don't think anybody knows exactly how fast the craft was going when it did hit. I've changed it to the more believable figure until somebody can get me a better reference. S B Harris 03:40, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

bad link
The Surveyor 2 flight performance final report link is dead. 69.72.27.231 (talk) 18:33, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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