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Experiment Description Document - Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle Topographic Mapping Experiment Description Document - Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle Topographic Mapping

This document is part of the Functional Specifications for the Topographic Mapping Experiment to be carried out by the Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle. It includes a description of the experiment along with the accuracies required for meaningful results.

Cinder Lake Conversation and Notes Cinder Lake Conversation and Notes

Cinder Lake symbology, unit descriptions, and ideas tested at Cinder Lakes and Verde Valley, northern Arizona.

Technical Letter: Astrogeology 27, Apollo Applications Program Field Test 5 Technical Letter: Astrogeology 27, Apollo Applications Program Field Test 5

Apollo Applications Program Field Test 5 was held March 14-18, 1966, in the Hopi Buttes area, Arizona. The objectives of the test were to 1) evaluate techniques of field checking a moderately complex photogeologic map--techniques potentially useful for lunar geologic exploration; 2) test the feasibility of using a vehicle mounted magnetometer and applying the magnetometer results to real...

Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Semiannual Report Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Semiannual Report

The U. S. Geological Survey's Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations carried out during the second half of Fiscal Year 1965 concept studies for Apollo and for AES exploration, and shirt-sleeve field tests of geologic operations for Apollo exploration. Three Apollo field tests were carried out late in the spring using communications and television systems, a simple LEM mock-up, and other...

Geologic Log of Drill Hole: Project Cinder Lake Geologic Log of Drill Hole: Project Cinder Lake

Drill Core Log of Cinder Lake (in Yavapai county) Collected September 10-17, 1968.

Schedule and Outline of Courses in Geology Astronaut Training Program Schedule and Outline of Courses in Geology Astronaut Training Program

Outline and schedule of geology training courses provided by the USGS Astronaut training program. Training topics include, but are not limited to, lunar and terrestrial geology, the rock cycle, impact processes, rock and mineral identification, lunar and terrestrial geophysics, and geologic mapping. This outline is dated January 8, 1964.

Technical Letter: Astrogeology-12, Time and Motions Required to Perform an Active Seismic Experiment Proposed for the First Apollo Landing Technical Letter: Astrogeology-12, Time and Motions Required to Perform an Active Seismic Experiment Proposed for the First Apollo Landing

At the suggestion of the Planetology Subcommittee of the Space Sciences Steering Committee, an active engineering seismic experiment originally proposed by J. S. Watkins, J. Cl. De Bremaecker, and M. F. Kane was incorporated into the Early Apollo Active Seismic Experiment originally proposed by R. L. Kovach . J. S. Watkins was made co-experimenter for the Early Apollo Active Seismic...

Technical Letter: Astrogeology 6: Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Report Apollo Field Operations Test II Technical Letter: Astrogeology 6: Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Report Apollo Field Operations Test II

Systems and shirt-sleeve operations tests were conducted at the Bonito Flow test site from April 5 through April 9. The tests provided the opportunity to evaluate field test logistics, systems compatibility, systems operation, and geological field and control center operations. This report summarizes the evaluations that bear on the potential usefulness of systems and operations.

Astronaut Lecture of H. J. Moore Astronaut Lecture of H. J. Moore

The main idea behind this slide presentation is to develope a general philosophy on: 1) lunar impact cratering processes, 2) characteristics of impact craters and ejecta as a function of target material and, size, 3) the effects of layered targets on impact crater morphology, and 4) illustration of the above for lunar sites.

United States Government Memorandum: Radio Procedures United States Government Memorandum: Radio Procedures

These suggestions are largely a result of two closely allied factors: first, a tape recording--either direct or one made via radio--should enable· a field geologist to record many more observations per unit time than can be made in a notebook. The observations should be to the point, but there is no reason for them to be cryptic and so potentially ambiguous to another person. Second...

Cinder Lake Handwritten Notes and Figures Cinder Lake Handwritten Notes and Figures

Cinder Lake symbology, unit descriptions, and ideas tested at Cinder Lakes and Verde Valley, northern Arizona.

Technical Letter: Astrogeology-9 Early Apollo Investigations Field Test 5 Technical Letter: Astrogeology-9 Early Apollo Investigations Field Test 5

When the Apollo astronauts land on the Moon, their precise location will not be known. The real-time geologic mapping planned for the first mission could best be done if the exact position of the landing site were determined. The astronauts may have to find their position, with or without assistance from the Earth-based scientific mission center, before leaving the Lunar Module (LM), and...
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