TWO EXPERIMENTS WITH A SCIENTIFIC PAYLOAD scheduled to be launched to the moon aboard Surveyor 7 on January 7 are shown on an engineering test model at the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California, which built the Surveyors for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the direction of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The box with the white circular base (middle foreground) is a miniature chemical analysis laboratory that will bombard the lunar soil with alpha particles to learn more about the moon’s composition. It is being lifted by an arm-claw device, a “soil mechanics surface sampler,” which previously dug a trench in the sand (lower foreground). At top middle is a television camera that will enable scientists on earth to watch the operation.

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 10

TWO EXPERIMENTS WITH A SCIENTIFIC PAYLOAD scheduled to be launched to the moon aboard Surveyor 7 on January 7 are shown on an engineering test model at the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California, which built the Surveyors for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the direction of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The box with the white circular base (middle foreground) is a miniature chemical analysis laboratory that will bombard the lunar soil with alpha particles to learn more about the moon’s composition. It is being lifted by an arm-claw device, a “soil mechanics surface sampler,” which previously dug a trench in the sand (lower foreground). At top middle is a television camera that will enable scientists on earth to watch the operation.