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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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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Mar 20 2006, 02:09 AM
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We mustn't forget that a footpad magnet was first carried on Surveyor 4, that a second one was added to Footpad #3 on Surveyor 7 (although neither of them touched the soil, and the surface sampler wan't positioned to pour dirt on the footpad for Surveyor 7 as it was for numbers 3 and 4), that there were also two small magnets on the surface sampler scoop door for Surveyor 7, and that there were two frame mirrors starting on #3 to allow views of the surface underneath the craft -- and a third starting with #6 to provide a view of the surface onto which the alpha-scatter instrument would then be lowered. Finally, they switched over from color to polarizing filters starting with #6.
Actually, after the failure of Ranger 5, the alpha-scatter instrument, magnets and camera filters were the ONLY instruments put on ANY unmanned US Moon probes -- except for the two attempts at lunar-orbiting Explorers -- that weren't totally connected with studies necessary for the Apollo landings. As I've said before, it's a pity that they didn't put a copy of the Ranger gamma-ray spectrometer on Lunar Orbiter 5 -- as they would have put it on #6 if that mission had been flown. |
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