Targets for LRO |
Targets for LRO |
Apr 6 2007, 09:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
You can imagine this to be a companion thread to the one requesting suggestions
for MRO targets on Mars. The LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) is set to launch in a little over a year from now. There was to a be a site selection workshop in May 2007, next month, but I see now that it has been cancelled. Therefore, it appears that it is up to us, the UMSF Community to take up the baton and help NASA out. It was done for New Horizons at Jupiter and was very productive. So, what are the sites that you would like to see imaged at 0.5 meter resolution by LROC, LRO's High-Resolution camera? My first suggestion would be to re-photograph the Surveyor 1 landing site to compare it with the images obtained by Lunar Orbiter 3. My second suggestion would be to photograph the Surveyor 6 landing area. This should image S-6 itself, but even more interesting, it may capture images of Surveyor 4, which should be only a mile or so away. This would help to determine whatever happened to S-4, which abruptly stopped transmitting just short of touchdown. Another Phil |
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Apr 6 2007, 11:17 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Other Phil, I have Surveyor 4 and Surveyor 6 about 4 km apart, about 2.5 miles. Bearing in mind we don't really know exactly where Surveyor 4 is, of course. You should also know that sites based on tracking were often off by several km from where the spacecraft was eventually found, which would enlarge the search area.
I would be most interested in the landing sites we do not have exact positions for: all Lunas, Surveyor 5, and the many impact sites not yet identified - such as Apollo 15, 16 and 17 SIVBs, Apollo 12, 15 and 17 LMs, Ranger 4 (long shot), Lunas 7 and 8, and of course SMART-1. To me, Lunokhod 1 is the most interesting of all. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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