Record

RefNoTG/1/3/368
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Dr Gordon MacDonald, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, California
Date10 June 1966
DescriptionSays that 'I am keen to have people understand what I said and not what newspapers or other uninformed sources said I said. Since it is now pretty clear that the maria are covered by a flat layer of a deposit of soft 'soil' and not by a frozen lava, I would of course prefer if the propaganda did not continue to say that I was wrong. I really cannot think of a Surveyor result that could have been more like what I thought and wrote in the past. I only pointed out that there was a risk of such deposits being very soft (and there still is!) but that mostly vacuum welding will have made it a crunchy and not a flowing substance'.
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FormatCarbon copy
AccessStatusOpen
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