Apollo Sites from LRO Options

[djellison]

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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[kymani76]

I was always tempted to try and convert Apollo Hasselblad Photography Index maps into vector form suitable to load into modern mapping software. As I could not find any numerical table (Apollo index only indicate image center coordinates) there was no other way but to load the maps and redraw all the data manually. This being time consuming process, I kept on postponing it indefinitely until recently. I started drawing Apollo 8 maps just to see if could be done, and on finding that the process produced adequate results, proceeded to the other missions. As for now the redrawing is almost complete, I only need to complete the footprints for the last mission, the Apollo 17.
On the map stereographic photography footprints selection is plotted for all the missions except the Apollo 16, which took no Hasselblad stereo sequences. For Apollo 13 no index map exist, but I managed to find limited number of footprints from other sources.

Color key for the map footprints is the following:

A8 (light green, bordeaux red)
A10 (green, light blue, violet)
A11 (light yellow)
A12 (blue and yellow)
A13 (orange)
A14 (red)
A15 (ochre)
A17 (cyan)

I plan to post the data files as an archive once completed. You can always drop me a note if you would like to get the preliminary data.