Geological mapping and chronology of lunar landing sites: Apollo 12

Apollo 14 Visibility Tests: Visibility of Lunar Surface Features and Lunar Landing

Assessment of spectral properties of Apollo 12 landing site

The geology and mineralogy of the Apollo 12 landing site has been the subject of recent studies that this research attempts to complement from a remote sensing point of view using the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) sensor data, onboard the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. It is a higher spatial-spectral resolution sensor than the Clementine UVVis sensor and gives the opportunity to study the lunar sur...

Lunar Impact History from Apollo 12 Glass Spherules

Introduction: Glass spherules in lunar soils are formed by meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface, though some are believed to be due to volcanic firefountaining events [1]. We recently reported [2] the ages of 155 lunar spherules from Apollo 14 soil sample 14163, determined by the Ar/Ar isochron technique. These spherules are all inferred to have been formed in impacts, and, since the sample w...

Developing Lunar Access 1 Running head: SPACECRAFT DESIGN REQUIREMENTS VIA CONTENT ANALYSIS Developing Lunar Landing Vehicle Display Requirements through Content Analysis of Apollo Lunar Landing Voice Communications

The lengthy period since the Apollo landings limits present-day engineers attempting to draw from the experiences of veteran Apollo engineers and astronauts in the design of a new lunar lander. In order to circumvent these limitations, content analyses were performed on the voice transcripts of the Apollo lunar landing missions. The analyses highlighted numerous inefficiencies in the design of ...

Lunar Ranging, Gravitomagnetism, and APOLLO

The technique of lunar laser ranging (LLR) has for many decades contributed to cutting-edge tests of the fundamental nature of gravity. These include the best tests to date of the strong equivalence principle, the time-rate-of-change of the gravitational constant, gravitomagnetism, the inverse square law, and preferred frame effects. The phenomenologies of each are briefly discussed, followed b...