Apollo Sites from LRO |
Apollo Sites from LRO |
Jul 17 2009, 02:52 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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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Jul 27 2009, 10:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Phil, I have a question and several others here may enjoy hearing the answer.
When the Fra Mauro site was designated for Apollo 13, they had designed traverses for various landing locations, including a traverse in case the LM landed long, to the west of the Doublet craters. This would have put Cone crater out of range for a crew exploring on foot, so the primary EVA-2 objective from this western location would have been something called Star crater. (When Lovell was leaving the Moon, he made a comment that he was "still looking for Star crater," so I know the crew was very aware of it.) I've only ever seen Star crater labeled on a map within the Apollo 13 presskit in PDF format, in which you really can't pick out the crater itself. Do you have any way of determining which crater is Star and identifying it on the LRO images? As it was west of Doublet, I would have to imagine it's in the current LRO image of the Fra Mauro region. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jul 28 2009, 12:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
Re: Star crater There's a reference here (http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/A14BoulderCommCheck.pdf) to 'Star Crater' in this Oct 5, 1970 Traverse changes PDF file (see image -- orietated and annoated to view better). It mentions in page three "In Test 1, traverse into and across Star Crater, a small but relatively deep crater..." The image in the PDF file (some pages down) is very poor, but it does show mention of "Star Rim", however, the exact location isn't very clear. Just below the image page in Table I, there's also a mention on the EVA 1 (extensions), and one sold, roughly, wrk out where Star Crater is from this , as they write "Continue from Star Crater to flat region NE of Star Crater and return to LM." John |
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