Talk:Surveyor 3

Bounce footprints?
Would be interesting to note in the article whether the Apollo 12 astronauts looked for, found, and/or photographed the footprints of the bounces. Tempshill 17:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Italics?
Shouldn't Surveyor 3 be in italics - Surveyor 3 - does it qualify as a certain kind of ship for that? --TheBearPaw (talk) 08:36, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

final trajectory

 * The second bounce reached a height of about 11 feet (three meters). On the third impact with the surface — from the initial altitude of three meters, and velocity of zero, which was below the planned altitude of 14 feet (4.3 meters), and very slowly descending —Surveyor 3 settled down to a soft landing as intended.

"planned altitude" is obscure; does this mean that Surveyor was intended to brake to a halt at 14 feet, and then drop? Or what? —Tamfang (talk) 01:24, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Basically yes. The maneuver is called a "terminal descent" and it is used to avoid displacing/disturbing the surface under a lander too much. The cited,  "SurveyorSpacecraft Automatic Landing System" has a diagram of the landing procedure on booklet page five, that suggests the engines were to be shut down at 13-feet and touchdown on the surface at 10-miles/hour.  However, I am unfortunately not well versed in the Surveyor landers so I am unsure where the 14-foot figure came from. --Xession (talk) 01:40, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Landing coordinates differ?
The article body has 3 degrees and various minutes and seconds: 3.028175 degrees. The sidebox has 2.94 degrees. Which is right??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.66.215 (talk) 06:33, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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Added information about scoop being returned
The scoop that was returned is housed in the Von Karman museum at JPL in California. I've uploaded photos of the scoop and informational sign at JPL, linked here, as I could not find a webpage documenting this. Jcoolkatzerg (talk) 00:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)