a12_r_c_o_TPMBK (AS12-46-6728)
Alan Bean is one rung up from the bottom of the ladder, with his right hand on the ladder and his right foot on the rung. His OPS antenna doesn't appear to be up. The Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) is at the lower left. Surveyor Crater is visible beyond the ladder.
Above description paraphrased from the ALSJ.
The still operational color television camera is visible, secured in the MESA, directly below the right-hand edge of the U.S. flag, one hoist-length down. At this point, the camera was transmitting some real nice images of Bean descending the ladder.
Lastly:
"Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, is about to step off the ladder of the Lunar Module to join astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., mission commander, in extravehicular activity (EVA). Conrad and Bean descended in the Apollo 12 LM to explore the moon while astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit."
Beautiful, but reversed...why am I not surprised:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo12/html/...
a12_r_c_o_TPMBK (AS12-46-6728)
Alan Bean is one rung up from the bottom of the ladder, with his right hand on the ladder and his right foot on the rung. His OPS antenna doesn't appear to be up. The Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) is at the lower left. Surveyor Crater is visible beyond the ladder.
Above description paraphrased from the ALSJ.
The still operational color television camera is visible, secured in the MESA, directly below the right-hand edge of the U.S. flag, one hoist-length down. At this point, the camera was transmitting some real nice images of Bean descending the ladder.
Lastly:
"Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, is about to step off the ladder of the Lunar Module to join astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., mission commander, in extravehicular activity (EVA). Conrad and Bean descended in the Apollo 12 LM to explore the moon while astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit."
Beautiful, but reversed...why am I not surprised:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo12/html/...