Charles ConradTwo images showing a blue halo around Alan Bean as he carries the scientific equipment to deploy it at the ALSEP site Apollo 12, 14-24 November 1969Two vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, each 18 x 18 cm (7 x 7 in), [NASA AS12-46-6807 and AS12-46-6826], with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on the verso, flh-mounted on original NASA HQ boards Footnotes:The first photograph shows Alan Bean ing a barbell carry to take the Apollo Lunar Scientific Equipment Package (ALSEP) to its deployment site at a distance of about 425 feet from the LM which is visible behind Bean. The second photograph of Bean at the ALSEP site near the seismometer graced the cover of Life magazine, December 12, 1969.'Everybody was trying to figure out what that aura was. Neither Al or I remember seeing the other guy putting the stuff out, but the film picked it up. The conclion was that the halos were water-vapor ice crystalsing out of the water boilers on our backpacks' Pete ConradIn fact, the blue glow around Bean was due to a dt smudge on the center of the lens.