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Description: A seismic reading taken from instruments at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) recording impact of the w:Apollo 13 S-IVB/Instrument Unit with lunar surface. The expended Saturn third stage and instrument unit impacted the lunar surface at 7:09 p.m., April 14, 1970. The location of the impact was 2.4 degrees south latitude and 27.9 degrees west longitude, about 76 nautical miles west-northwest of the Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Experiment package deployment site. The S-IVB/IU impact was picked up by the Passive Seismic Experiment, a component of the package and transmitted to instruments at the Mission Control Center.
Title: S70-34985
Credit: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=S70-34985 http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo13/html/s70-34985.html
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