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Photogrammetry and altimetry: Part C: frequency distributions of lunar slopes Photogrammetry and altimetry: Part C: frequency distributions of lunar slopes

The metric and panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 16 spacecraft provided photographs on which photogrammetric techniques may be used to obtain precise measurements of horizontal distances and elevations. These measurements of horizontal distances and elevations. These measurements may in turn be used to obtain slope-frequency distributions of lunar surfaces at various slope lengths and...
Authors
Sherman S.C. Wu, H. J. Moore

Orbital-science investigation: Part H: sketch map of the region around the candidate Littrow Apollo landing sites Orbital-science investigation: Part H: sketch map of the region around the candidate Littrow Apollo landing sites

The photograph in figure 25-59 and the corresponding map (fig. 25-60) show the geology of part of the lunar surface just east of the Littrow rilles at the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis. The most striking feature of the region is the extremely low albedo of the area mapped as Eld in the western half of the map. The low albedo is believed to be caused by a thin layer of pyroclastic...
Authors
M. H. Carr

The Apollo 17 landing site The Apollo 17 landing site

Dr Lucchitta describes the geology of the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow region of the Moon.
Authors
Baerbel K. Lucchitta

Preliminary geologic investigation of the Apollo 15 landing site Preliminary geologic investigation of the Apollo 15 landing site

The Apollo 15 lunar module (LM) landed at longitude 03°39'20'' E, latitude 26°26'00'' N on the mare surface of Palus Putredinis on the eastern edge of the Imbrium Basin. The site is between the Apennine Mountain front and Hadley Rille. The objectives of the mission, in order of decreasing priority, were description and sampling of three major geologic features—the Apennine Front, Hadley...
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G.A. Swann, N. G. Bailey, R. M. Batson, V. L. Freeman, M. H. Hait, J.W. Head, H. E. Holt, K. A. Howard, J.B. Irwin, K.B. Larson, W.R. Muehlberger, V. S. Reed, J. J. Rennilson, G. G. Schaber, D.R. Scott, L. T. Silver, R. L. Sutton, G. E. Ulrich, H. G. Wilshire, E.W. Wolfe

Photogeology: Part A: relative ages of some near-side and far-side terra plains based on Apollo 16 metric photography Photogeology: Part A: relative ages of some near-side and far-side terra plains based on Apollo 16 metric photography

The materials of most light or terra plains predate the lunar maria and postdate the Imbrian event. In the vicinity of the Imbrium Basin, these materials have been called the Cayley Formation (ref. 29-3) but because of the subtle diversity of the terra plains over the near side, Whilhelms and McCauley (ref. 29-4) simply called these materials Imbrian plains (Ip). The age relationships...
Authors
Laurence A. Soderblom, Joseph M. Boyce

Photogeology: Part B: Cayley Formation interpreted as basin ejecta Photogeology: Part B: Cayley Formation interpreted as basin ejecta

The discovery that samples returned from the Cayley Formation at the Apollo 16 landing site consist mainly of nonvolcanic breccias (secs. 6 and 7 of this report) suggests that the hypothesis in which light plains-forming materials may be ejecta from multi-ring basins should be reevaluated (refs 29-15 to 29-17). Improved information on the morphology and distribution of the Cayley...
Authors
R. E. Eggleton, G. G. Schaber

Orbital-science investigation: Part F: regional geology of Hadley Rille Orbital-science investigation: Part F: regional geology of Hadley Rille

Study of the sinuous Hadley Rille (fig. 25-45) was a primary goal of the Apollo 15 mission. Local geology of the rille near the landing site is described in section 5 of this report. Preliminary study of orbital photography from Hasselblad, metric, and panoramic cameras makes possible a description of some regional relationships of the rille. Considerable use is also made of a...
Authors
Keith A. Howard, James W. Head

Photogeology: Part G: structural aspects of Imbrium sculpture Photogeology: Part G: structural aspects of Imbrium sculpture

Apollo 16 metric photographs taken at low to high Sun angles (from approximately 7° to 40°) provide the first stereographic coverage of the distinctive landforms collectively referred to as "Imbrium sculpture" (refs. 29-40 and 29-41). The sculpture consists of a series of nearly linear ridges and troughs extending radially outward for more than 1000 km from the rim of the Imbrium Basin...
Authors
David H. Scott

Orbital-science investigation: Part B: photogrammetric analysis of Apollo 15 records Orbital-science investigation: Part B: photogrammetric analysis of Apollo 15 records

The three cameras—stellar, mapping, and panoramic—together with the laser altimeter, all included in the scientific instrument module (SIM) bay, represent an integrated photogrammatric system with extraordinary potential for extending knowledge of the lunar figure, surface configuration, and geological structure.
Authors
Frederick J. Doyle

Photogeology: Part F: reinterpretations of the northern Nectaris Basin Photogeology: Part F: reinterpretations of the northern Nectaris Basin

Geologic units of the Nectaris Basin rim have been interpreted as partly impact and partly volcanic in origin (refs. 29-4, 29-21, 29-35, 29-38, and 29-39). An exclusively volcanic origin was proposed for the material in the vicinity of the Apollo 16 landing site, slightly northwest of the Nectaris Basin (ref. 29-36). In view of the dominance of breccia and the paucity of volcanic...
Authors
Don E. Wilhelms

Photogeology: Part L: crater morphometry Photogeology: Part L: crater morphometry

Morphometric analysis of lunar craters (ref. 29-75) complements the more traditional photointerpretive study of crater morphology. These two indirect approaches to the scientific investigation of lunar craters continue to be productive because the preferred alternative method, direct field examination of specific large craters, is not being undertaken in the current series of manned...
Authors
Richard J. Pike

Preliminary geologic investigation of the Apollo 16 landing site Preliminary geologic investigation of the Apollo 16 landing site

The Apollo 16 landing site in the lunar central highlands encompassed terra plains and adjacent mountainous areas of hilly and furrowed terra. These morphologic units, representing important terrane types in the lunar highlands, had been interpreted as volcanic on most premission geologic maps. However, it became apparent during the mission that there are indeed few or no volcanic rocks...
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W.R. Muehlberger, R. M. Batson, E. L. Boudette, C.M. Duke, R. E. Eggleton, D. P. Elston, A. W. England, V. L. Freeman, M. H. Hait, T.A. Hall, J.W. Head, C. A. Hodges, H. E. Holt, E.D. Jackson, J.A. Jordan, K.B. Larson, D.J. Milton, V. S. Reed, J. J. Rennilson, G. G. Schaber, J.P. Schafer, L. T. Silver, D. Stuart-Alexander, R. L. Sutton, G.A. Swann, R.L. Tyner, G. E. Ulrich, H. G. Wilshire, E.W. Wolfe, J.W. Young
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