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The Western Australian city of Perth has been asked to turn on all its lights on August 7, so that it can be photographed from the moon. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist, Dr Thornton Page, says that a special camera placed on the moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts will try to photograph the lights during an eclipse of the sun.—Perth, July 22.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32666, 23 July 1971, Page 13
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