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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Mar 27 2006, 04:13 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10168 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
OK, Bruce et al., here is an image from Explorer 49:
The images were 2160 by 512 pixels, 4 bit, compressed... and part of the compression scheme was to transmit only every 4th line and interpolate on the ground. The bright area at left, wrapping around a bit at right (this is a 360 degree scan), is sun glare. Various antennae and panels are seen, plus the lunar disk. I have not yet identified the topography. The ragged edges at right are caused by the compression scheme (buffer overflow) as in some Cassini images. This image was taken on 16 July 1973, and here it has been heavily modified from the source. I have contacted Goddard to try to find more or better images. edit: Mare Crisium is at the top. The large prominent crater towards the bottom is Endymion. North is at the bottom. Phil -------------------- ... 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 PD: 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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Mar 27 2006, 05:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Phil:
Have you packed your Grandmother? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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