Apollo Sites from LRO |
Apollo Sites from LRO |
Jul 17 2009, 02:52 PM
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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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May 21 2016, 10:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
All of the LM ascent stages were grazing impacts, but all of them caused rather strong seismic signals, picked up quite clearly and distinctly even by seismometers emplaced hundreds of kilometers away. The fact that the A16 LM ascent stage impact wasn't noted on any of the seismometers I always put down to the likelihood that it impacted on the far side, with most of the Moon's bulk between it and the seismometers.
You would have to think that anything that generated such seismic signals would have created a crater, wouldn't you? It also seems to me that the dark streaks seem radial. If you ran lines back along the streaks, wouldn't that point you back to the origin point of all of them? There couldn't have been a lot of interactions that would have sent off debris on non-radial trajectories, so most of the streaks ought to point directly back to the impact point, right? -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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May 23 2016, 07:00 AM
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