Apollo Sites from LRO |
Apollo Sites from LRO |
Jul 17 2009, 02:52 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 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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Nov 2 2016, 04:46 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Allow me to introduce to you.... the Apollo 14 LM Ascent Stage impact site!
This is almost exactly at the tracking location. Its latitude and longitude in Quickmap coordinates are 3.4202 S, 19.6368 W (340.3632 E). My hero, Ewen Whitaker, who sadly just died aged 94 a couple of weeks ago, tried to locate the impact site and suggested it was at the location of an unusual dark spot in an Apollo 16 Metric Camera image (frame 2508). He had just observed that Ranger and other artificial impacts tended to look dark from orbit, so it was a reasonable suggestion. But it was not quite in the right place. In this case he was mistaken. This spot shows features very similar to the Apollo 12 LM Ascent Stage impact, illustrated above on this page. I will be presenting this at LPSC. -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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