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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 13, 1967
Surveyor 6 returns photos of lunar surface
PASADENA, Calif. — (UPI)— Pictures taken by the latest U.S. moon satellite, Surveyor 6, show a moonscape littered with rocks ranging in size up to two feet wide which may have been spewed from a crater out of camera range.
A spokesman for Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the rock-strewn Central Bay region looked like
"a boulder field," but added scientists were unsure how the rocks got there.
One guess is the rocks were hurled from an unseen crater "from over the horizon, where no crater is visible."
photos taken by Surveyor 6's television camera as it rotated across a field of six degrees.
The picture of the debris was fitted together Sunday from five
The moon robot, which soft landed in the Central Bay Thursday night, has returned more than 4,000 pictures of the lunar surface. Scientists plan to take a total of 20,000 photos before
shutting the spacecraft down for the 14-day-long lunar night.
The versatile spacecraft also dangled a miniature chemistry set from a nylon line to analyze
the lunar topsoil. Data from the experiment was radioed back to earth where the information will help determine the best site for a manned landing.
Yemeni cease-fire may be lasting
CAIRO—(UPI)—Yemen's bloody five-year civil war came to a standstill today after the warring royalist and republican factions announced a cease-fire agreement.
The truce came less than a week after the Yemeni coup replaced the government of President Abdullah Sallal with a more moderate republican regime.
Middle East observers said the cease-fire announcement is a major and genuine step toward eventual peace in the 75,000-square-mile South Arabian country.
The commander of the royalist forces met with 20 Republican chieftains Sunday outside the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, the Middle East News Agency MENA reported.
The agreement they reached had been considered only a matter of time after UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the republican's main supporter, and Saudi Arabian King Faisal, the royalist hacker, decided at the September Arab summit in Khartoum to end the five-year struggle.
The removal of Sallal, considered chief stumbling block to a settlement, assured Sunday's decision, observers said.
The cease-fire halted a conflict which began in 1962 when republican forces, backed by Egyptian troops, overthrew the regime of the Imam Badr and seized power, installing Sallal as president.
He remained in office, supported by Nasser and backed by massive
Egyptian troop presence estimated at times at as high as 50,000 men.
The royalists, meanwhile, regrouped their forces in mountain retreats to the north, and launched a systematic campaign, with seldom concealed support from monarchist Saudi Arabia, to recapture the land.
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