Ummm. First pic is from A11, I found it on the ASJ site. (A-11 pic 5927) The second photo that shows the full lander with the different type of foil is listed as http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/AS15-87-11839.jpg
I bolded the bit that struck me as odd. Now... why might the foil look different?

For what it's worth, on the high res pic it's pretty obvious that the gold foil is under the black covering. Sort of makes it seem like maybe the black covering may have been removed at some point between the two pictures (1 and 3).

I'm not sure what he's got marked as the thicker ladder from the video feed, but you can see the thinner ladder sides and rung about head high in the image.


ETA, blast. Spent too long playing with the links.

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