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The Feel of the Moon

In September Surveyor V showed that the moon's surface is not unlike the earth's in composition. Six months earlier Surveyor III had found that its consistency was also much like a granular terrestrial soil

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 217 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Feel of the Moon” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 217 No. 5 (), p. 34
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1167-34