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Unmanned landing sites from LRO, Surveyors, Lunas, Lunakhods and impact craters from hardware impacts
dvandorn
post Sep 7 2009, 07:51 PM
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I figured it was time to begin a thread like this, especially since some of us may still be looking for the Surveyor III retro motor casing (assuming the bright dot to the north of the landing site isn't it).

We ought to be seeing some of the other Surveyors fairly soon, I would think. We know most of their locations pretty accurately. Again, I think there is a lot to be gained, both from scientific and engineering standpoints, from detailed imaging of the Surveyor VII landing site, just to mention one. And I really want to see how visible the Lunakhod tracks are as opposed to the MET and LRV tracks.

So... until we begin to see images of other unmanned hardware (or the craters caused by same), we could always discuss comparisons of Surveyor III surface imagery to the new LROC images of its landing site here. I'm especially taken by how you can resolve many of the blocks in Block Crater in the LROC image, which gives you a good feel for the explosive nature of the ejecta and roughly where in the ejecta plume a given block might have come from. Might be interesting/useful to apply this information to the samples taken at that location. smile.gif

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Phil Stooke
post Mar 11 2010, 08:47 PM
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Now they're teasing us (or just me) - today's release is about 30 km from the Luna 24 position.

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- dvandorn   Unmanned landing sites from LRO   Sep 7 2009, 07:51 PM
- - eoincampbell   Do you know if the LROC targets will be announced ...   Sep 8 2009, 04:28 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (eoincampbell @ Sep 8 2009, 09:28 A...   Sep 8 2009, 04:31 PM
- - eoincampbell   Thanks for the excellent link..   Sep 8 2009, 06:49 PM
- - Zvezdichko   Probably offtopic, but we can see the blast zone o...   Sep 11 2009, 09:04 AM
- - Zvezdichko   First Surveyor found: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/ne...   Sep 30 2009, 09:20 PM
- - elakdawalla   Thanks! I always learn about these new releas...   Sep 30 2009, 09:43 PM
- - Zvezdichko   No This is really the white blast zone. I'm ...   Sep 30 2009, 09:52 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Your imagination is OK, Emily. I think we see the...   Sep 30 2009, 10:10 PM
- - ilbasso   I'm hesitant to say we can see blast zones for...   Oct 1 2009, 12:18 AM
- - Phil Stooke   That's not my interpretation of the Apollo ima...   Oct 1 2009, 12:30 AM
- - PDP8E   Here is the Apollo 12 / Surveyor 3 image that Phil...   Oct 1 2009, 01:35 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Yes, that's it, and you can see it surrounds a...   Oct 1 2009, 01:40 AM
- - Zvezdichko   I think I can see the blast zone of Apollo 11, but...   Oct 1 2009, 07:10 AM
- - JRA   It looks as though the Surveyor 1 site has been im...   Oct 1 2009, 08:37 AM
|- - Zvezdichko   QUOTE (JRA @ Oct 1 2009, 09:37 AM) It loo...   Oct 1 2009, 08:46 AM
|- - JRA   QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Oct 1 2009, 12:46 AM)...   Oct 1 2009, 10:43 AM
- - Stu   Not a "bad" at all, don't worry abou...   Oct 1 2009, 11:15 AM
- - charborob   I noticed some funny-looking craters on LRO's ...   Oct 1 2009, 01:58 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Surveyor 1 happened to land in one of the geologic...   Oct 1 2009, 03:04 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This type of crater was discovered in Lunar Orbite...   Oct 1 2009, 03:15 PM
- - charborob   Well, so I didn't discover anything new, but a...   Oct 1 2009, 03:26 PM
|- - stewjack   QUOTE (charborob @ Oct 1 2009, 10:26 AM) ...   Oct 1 2009, 09:17 PM
- - PDP8E   Here is the Surveyor 1 site I downloaded the TIF...   Oct 2 2009, 02:48 AM
- - BUDU   LRO is now orbiting over Mare Crisium and the Sun ...   Nov 22 2009, 04:55 PM
- - Phil Stooke   LROC news from LPSC - heard from a thoroughly disr...   Mar 1 2010, 01:26 AM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 1 2010, 08:26 AM...   Mar 1 2010, 01:38 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I can't tell you yet. Maybe more tomorrow. P...   Mar 1 2010, 01:45 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Update. Mark Robinson showed images of three Luna...   Mar 1 2010, 07:44 PM
|- - gndonald   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 2 2010, 03:44 AM...   Mar 11 2010, 09:37 AM
- - Paolo   No release yet of the Luna images (too bad, where ...   Mar 2 2010, 06:40 AM
- - nprev   I would imagine that someone is preparing to publi...   Mar 2 2010, 07:01 AM
- - Lightning   Wow, just can't wait thoses images ! There...   Mar 2 2010, 10:23 PM
- - Phil Stooke   It's unfortunate that we don't yet have th...   Mar 8 2010, 04:42 PM
- - Hungry4info   How close together did they land?   Mar 8 2010, 04:59 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The usual sources always said a few hundred meters...   Mar 8 2010, 07:47 PM
- - Hungry4info   Ah, wow. Was that intentional?   Mar 8 2010, 07:59 PM
- - Paolo   Also Luna 18 and 20 are said to have landed within...   Mar 8 2010, 08:20 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Right, Paolo - in each case the first one failed a...   Mar 8 2010, 08:26 PM
- - PDP8E   Hey Phil, I have my destriper and blower-upper to...   Mar 9 2010, 05:57 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The LROC site has a place to ask questions. I ask...   Mar 11 2010, 01:02 AM
- - Phil Stooke   They said the drill was damaged - maybe struck a r...   Mar 11 2010, 02:43 PM
|- - gndonald   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 11 2010, 10:43 P...   Mar 11 2010, 11:01 PM
|- - Geert   The longer I look at these new images, the more I ...   Mar 16 2010, 08:55 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Now they're teasing us (or just me) - today...   Mar 11 2010, 08:47 PM
- - peter59   Luna 23 and Luna 24 http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lro...   Mar 16 2010, 12:44 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Moving into this thread from the other one... here...   Mar 16 2010, 01:45 PM
|- - robspace54   Much clearer in the original higher - resolution s...   Mar 16 2010, 02:44 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 16 2010, 06:45 A...   Mar 16 2010, 04:07 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The original is rather low contrast. I'm not ...   Mar 16 2010, 04:53 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This is an image from the commissioning orbit. La...   Mar 17 2010, 01:02 PM
- - nprev   <waiting anxiously for confirmation, hoping Phi...   Mar 17 2010, 08:21 PM
- - Phil Stooke   More of a one-fer, I'm afraid. Now I'm af...   Mar 17 2010, 09:23 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 18 2010, 05:23 A...   Mar 18 2010, 01:26 AM
- - Maquis   Okay, I've taken a look at NASA site: http://l...   Mar 18 2010, 01:20 AM
- - Bill Harris   The Quotable Phil is quoted in Science Daily: QUO...   Mar 18 2010, 09:27 AM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Mar 18 2010, 04:27 A...   Mar 18 2010, 12:42 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I've been trying to get the word out about thi...   Mar 19 2010, 02:22 PM
- - elakdawalla   The story is a bit goofy but at least they have th...   Mar 19 2010, 03:45 PM
- - Bill Harris   Goofy, silly and sensational headlining, but at le...   Mar 19 2010, 04:39 PM
- - nprev   It's amazing to watch how this story unfolds i...   Mar 19 2010, 05:16 PM
- - S_Walker   I've been searching for Ranger 9 impact scar, ...   Mar 19 2010, 06:10 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Ranger 9 looks to be outside the coverage we have ...   Mar 19 2010, 07:21 PM
- - Byran   Luna-21 found http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/?archi...   Mar 20 2010, 02:49 PM
- - kenny   No-one appears to have turned up Luna 16 to date, ...   Mar 21 2010, 08:18 PM
- - Geert   LROC side has images of Surveyor 6 and Surveyor 5....   Mar 22 2010, 02:09 AM
|- - Byran   QUOTE (Geert @ Mar 22 2010, 07:39 AM) Am ...   Mar 22 2010, 05:24 PM
- - Hungry4info   What about Ranger impacts? Or the Surveyor 2 crash...   Mar 22 2010, 06:40 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Everything will be looked for! The list of ta...   Mar 22 2010, 07:15 PM
|- - S_Walker   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 22 2010, 03:15 P...   Mar 22 2010, 07:56 PM
- - Byran   QUOTE Caption: Bang! On April 14th 1970, the A...   Mar 23 2010, 10:05 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   That has got to be the best man-made impact site w...   Mar 23 2010, 01:54 PM
- - Explorer1   Now that's what I'm talking about! Goo...   Mar 23 2010, 11:28 PM
- - Geert   Most probably it's just one of the many rock...   Mar 25 2010, 12:55 PM
- - kenny   Looks more like a boulder to me, with its uniform ...   Mar 25 2010, 01:31 PM
- - Byran   Luna-16 http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/?archives/20...   Mar 25 2010, 04:54 PM
- - nprev   That's one of the clearest shots yet.   Mar 26 2010, 05:30 AM
- - Geert   The list at the LROC site states a preliminary pos...   Apr 10 2010, 10:23 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I didn't know we had access to that image yet....   Apr 10 2010, 01:53 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 10 2010, 08:53 P...   Apr 10 2010, 03:11 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Thanks for the tip! I'm learning a lot ...   Apr 10 2010, 05:35 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   How far apart are they in the image Phil, is it po...   Apr 10 2010, 05:45 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This is a locator image for Luna 20 and the Luna 1...   Apr 10 2010, 05:53 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Wow...good eye   Apr 10 2010, 06:05 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The large crater in that locator image is 4 km nor...   Apr 10 2010, 06:15 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's the new comparison image. (PS I really...   Apr 10 2010, 06:47 PM
|- - kenny   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 10 2010, 07:47 P...   Apr 11 2010, 08:01 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (kenny @ Apr 11 2010, 01:01 PM) Now...   Apr 12 2010, 03:55 AM
|- - kenny   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 12 2010, 04:55 A...   Apr 12 2010, 08:32 AM
- - djellison   I can almost convince myself that the crash landin...   Apr 10 2010, 06:54 PM
- - Phil Stooke   If this is Luna 18 it obviously landed - rather th...   Apr 10 2010, 08:00 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 11 2010, 03:00 A...   Apr 11 2010, 12:15 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 11 2010, 01:15 AM) Imp...   Apr 11 2010, 12:28 AM
- - kenny   I agree that Phil's object is Luna 18. Geert...   Apr 11 2010, 07:39 AM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (kenny @ Apr 11 2010, 02:39 PM) I a...   Apr 11 2010, 09:43 AM
|- - ilbasso   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 11 2010, 05:43 AM) Mig...   Apr 12 2010, 03:16 AM
- - Hungry4info   I'm not convinced. Looking at the shadow gives...   Apr 11 2010, 10:17 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's a finder image for Luna 16 - I just f...   Apr 11 2010, 12:15 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This is where my Luna 18 candidate is: and here...   Apr 11 2010, 01:14 PM
- - Geert   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 11 2010, 08:14 P...   Apr 11 2010, 03:08 PM
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