NASA Photo ID: S72-54999           File Name: 10075947.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW                 Date Taken: 12/10/72
Title: Seismometer reading viewed in ALSEP Room in Misson Control during Apollo 17
Description:
The seismometer readings from the impact made by the Apollo 17 Saturn 
S-IVB stage when it struck the lunar surface are viewed in the ALSEP Room
in  the Misson Control Center at Houston by Dr. Maurice Ewing, professor of 
geophysics of the Universtiy of Texas at Galveston. The seismic tracings
are  from sensings made by seismometers of Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments 
Packages left on the Moon during earlier Apollo lunar landing missions.                

Subject terms:
APOLLO 17 FLIGHT                        
APOLLO PROJECT                          
EVALUATION                              
IMPACT                                  
INTEGRATED MISSION CONTROL CENTER       
LUNAR SURFACE                           
SATURN LAUNCH VEHICLES                  
SEISMOGRAPHS                            
SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  

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