a12_v_bw_o_AKP (unnumbered, Philco-Ford Corp News Dept photo, 11-3-69)
“One of the scientific experiments aboard Apollo 12 is a lunar surface magnetometer, built for NASA by Philco-Ford Corporation, and designed to send magnetic measurements back to Earth for a year. Artist’s rendering shows astronaut setting up the instrument on lunar surface. Magnetometer will help determine deep electrical properties of the moon and calculate how the solar wind or plasma stream above the moon reacts with the moon’s surface.”
Huh, Philco-Ford Corporation built the LSM? Who knew? I didn’t! Did you?
Although I've seen this multiple times over the years, I had no idea that it was a contractor-produced depiction.
Not a complaint, but somehow, the LSM & astronaut look like ‘paintified’ photographs to me.
As a November 1969 release, I find it a little odd to see a crude approximation of a circa 1964 Lunar Module. Furthermore, although too far in the weeds, the space suit looks more like that worn by Rusty Schweickart on Apollo 9 than that actually worn on the moon.
I suppose all of that’s secondary to the purpose of this artwork. As such, the most accurately portrayed item is the LSM.
Not a clue as to the artist.
Informative LSM reading:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=1969...
Credit: NSSDCA website
a12_v_bw_o_AKP (unnumbered, Philco-Ford Corp News Dept photo, 11-3-69)
“One of the scientific experiments aboard Apollo 12 is a lunar surface magnetometer, built for NASA by Philco-Ford Corporation, and designed to send magnetic measurements back to Earth for a year. Artist’s rendering shows astronaut setting up the instrument on lunar surface. Magnetometer will help determine deep electrical properties of the moon and calculate how the solar wind or plasma stream above the moon reacts with the moon’s surface.”
Huh, Philco-Ford Corporation built the LSM? Who knew? I didn’t! Did you?
Although I've seen this multiple times over the years, I had no idea that it was a contractor-produced depiction.
Not a complaint, but somehow, the LSM & astronaut look like ‘paintified’ photographs to me.
As a November 1969 release, I find it a little odd to see a crude approximation of a circa 1964 Lunar Module. Furthermore, although too far in the weeds, the space suit looks more like that worn by Rusty Schweickart on Apollo 9 than that actually worn on the moon.
I suppose all of that’s secondary to the purpose of this artwork. As such, the most accurately portrayed item is the LSM.
Not a clue as to the artist.
Informative LSM reading:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=1969...
Credit: NSSDCA website