Apollo Sites from LRO Options

[djellison]

Thought this deserved a new thread- we can't talk about EVERY LRO target in the one thread

I made a mistake in this one - I didn't include the thruster plume guards. My MER/MPF simulation for HiRISE seemed to come out about right - so fingers crossed that this will be there or there abouts as well. Still in a comissioning phase, something of a slant angle - I'd expect approx 1.5m/pixel if it's at the 120km figure mentioned earlier.

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[glennwsmith]

Belleraphon1, even before reading your posts re the Apollo 14 landing site, I was pretty sure I saw tracks wandering off to the east/north east. And this is exactly in the direction of Cone Crater! BTW, I am not as up on my Apollo history as I should be, but the edge of Cone Crater is about 1 km from the landing site. That's pretty nervy, walking that distance from the [relative] security of the LEM!

robspace54, i's a very useful diagram you've dug up, of the various camera angles etc. around the Apollo 11 landing site.

[robspace54]

Belleraphon1, even before reading your posts re the Apollo 14 landing site, I was pretty sure I saw tracks wandering off to the east/north east. And this is exactly in the direction of Cone Crater! BTW, I am not as up on my Apollo history as I should be, but the edge of Cone Crater is about 1 km from the landing site. That's pretty nervy, walking that distance from the [relative] security of the LEM!

robspace54, i's a very useful diagram you've dug up, of the various camera angles etc. around the Apollo 11 landing site.

As for nervy, think about where they were and what they were doing!

I can also see that black dot, but based on the "map" it looks too close to the descent stage. BUT... if you look almost due south about 3 "LMs" away the EASEP seismometer is visible. It is a rectangular looking blob, long axis north-south, with a shadow to the east.

I also "see" the LRRR just meters north of the seismometer.

Rob

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[belleraphon1]

As for nervy, think about where they were and what they were doing!

I can also see that black dot, but based on the "map" it looks too close to the descent stage. BUT... if you look almost due south about 3 "LMs" away the EASEP seismometer is visible. It is a rectangular looking blob, long axis north-south, with a shadow to the east.

I also "see" the LRRR just meters north of the seismometer.

Rob

glennwsmith and robspace54.... yeah that is why Apollo 14 is one of my favorite missions. They were really extending their EVA reach, given no Rover.

Any yeah, I am pretty confidant now those are the tracks going NE. They follow the mission plot pretty well.
Cannot wait to see Cone Crater.

Listen to the transcipts here
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.html

[NickF]

glennwsmith and robspace54.... yeah that is why Apollo 14 is one of my favorite missions. They were really extending their EVA reach, given no Rover.

Any yeah, I am pretty confidant now those are the tracks going NE. They follow the mission plot pretty well.
Cannot wait to see Cone Crater.

Listen to the transcipts here
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.html

New Scientist has a nice gallery feature ("What if the Eagle had landed on Earth") showing the area covered during the respective moonlandings superimposed on a map of central London. The Apollo 14 map is here