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 16 2005, 06:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10156 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yes, we have a good idea where to look. 0.3 degrees N, 1.62 degrees W, which assumes a nominal landing but loss of telemetry (from the Surveyor Program final report). More likely it crashed nearby.
This area is just outside the high resolution Lunar Orbiter coverage so there is no pre-impact high resolution coverage. It might be covered by Apollo 10 Hasselblad images VERY near the terminator - lots of areas lost in shadow. But they would be nowhere near detailed enough to identify the impact crater or (even more so) a landed spacecraft. Clementine images would be useless for this - far too low resolution. However, imaging such sites is a goal of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Even so it's not certain it could be identified without good pre-impact imaging. You are, though, mistaken in thinking that NASA might have an interest in looking for it. NASA is purely an engineering organization. This sort of search, with no value other than historical, is only of interest to people like me. 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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