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132:52:41 Conrad: We got to find Sharp Crater first.

132:52:42 Bean: Where is it?

132:52:44 Conrad: I don't know. We should be right here. (Pause) How big is Sharp Crater?

132:52:55 Bean: Looks pretty small. It looks to me to be about 30 meters.

132:53:00 Conrad: Okay. I've got it. It's right here in front of me.

132:53:02 Bean: Okay. Yeah. I see it. That's it. (Long Pause)

132:53:22 Conrad: Okay. Got a rock. (Taking a pan) Five pic-a-tures. (f/)8. This has got to be Sharp Crater right here. We'll drive that double core tube in the...

132:53:40 Bean: All right. Yeah. This has a nice white rim on it. In fact, the rim of this looks pretty much like the area we kicked over on the previous craters.

[In this case, the very light color of the regolith may be due, primarily, to the fact that Sharp Crater is very fresh and that the regolith broken up.]
132:53:47 Conrad: I'm not sure this is Sharp Crater, but it's ...

132:53:49 Bean: Let's use it anyway, because it's the only one out here.

132:53:55 Conrad: I know. There is nothing out here. Darnedest thing I ever saw.

132:54:01 Gibson: We're estimating a diameter of Sharp Crater, Pete, for about 40 feet (12 meters).

132:54:08 Bean: 40 feet, huh?...

132:54:09 Conrad: Al, this may be it!

132:54:10 Bean: This is it.

132:54:11 Conrad: It's got to be it.

[Bean - "You never knew if you really had picked the right one."]

[Conrad - "I'm not saying whether I could look back at Bench Crater, either; but I must have been trying to find Sharp by looking at something I knew where it was. It must have been Bench."]

[Bean - "How did you know when you finally got there? How did you know that was Sharp Crater, as opposed to just another crater?"]

[Conrad - "Because it does have all the white. We knew that."]

[Bean - "You could see the light color when you got there? You seemed to have confidence. 'I've got it, there it is.'"]

[Conrad - "Well, I think the other thing is, I've got it mapped. Remember, I'm still looking at a map. So I think if I can look at the LM and look at this and I'm kind of..."]

[Bean - "VR-ing (vector ranging) backwards. Okay."]

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