SURVEYOR III Soil Sampler Sequence (1967)

Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. This short NASA film shows the operations of the soil sampler. It was stabilized and cleaned up for better presentation. The television camera on Surveyor 3 consisted of a vidicon tube. The camera returned 6315 pictures between April 20 and May 3, 1967, including views of the spacecraft itself, panoramic lunar surveys, views of the mechanical surface digger at work, and of an April 24 eclipse of the S