The Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, Plans for a rover to accompany Surveyor |
The Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, Plans for a rover to accompany Surveyor |
Aug 18 2005, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, phase I. Volume V - System evaluation Final technical report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1966004162.pdf -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 17 2005, 06:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Bob Shaw: "Hopefully, when Apollo-On-Steroids comes to pass, there'll be a SIM-Bay-On-Steroids in the CEV SM which will routinely save multi megapixel images of the surface ...."
Actually, dedicated orbiters will be far more useful. If you want something like 10 centimeter resolution imagery of selected lunar surface areas, you're talking about a serious camera, even in low 15 km constantly-trimmed-to-keep-from-crashing orbit. Note that the orbital photographic mapping on Apollo 17 was nearly wasted since the orbit nearly duplicated the Apollo 15 orbit, other than being at an earlier time of the month, while the coverage on Apollo 16 was limited to areas very very close to the equator, so the groundtrack barely varied as the Moon rotated under the orbit. Actually, there is real engineering reason to rephotograph landing and impact sites. The bigger the statistical sample we get of recent, low velocity (compared with meteorites) impact craters on the moon, the better we understand the structure and mechanical properties of the lunar regolith to depths below where we drilled. |
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Jan 23 2006, 06:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Surveyor: Landing Radar Test Program Review Final Report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1967028593.pdf and Surveyor Spacecraft System - Surveyor 2 Flight Performance Final Report http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1968009188.pdf -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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