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Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC Landing Site Orthomosaic 50cm v1

application/zip 6 MBMay 01 2018

Product Information: This is an (ortho-) mosaic map of the Apollo 17 landing site (L15K 20.2/30.7East COMT). The map includes nomenclature, elevation contours, the astronauts' major geology stops,…

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Moon Apollo Metric Albedo Mosaic v1

application/pds-img 84 kBJan 15 2010

The Apollo Metric Cameras were carried on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions to map Earth’s Moon with a high degree of geometric fidelity. This PDS volume contains the "Apollo 15, 16, and 17…

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Moon Apollo Lunar Sample Photographs

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Product Information: This set of archive volumes contains digital scanned versions of original film photographs of rock, soil, and core samples collected from the lunar surface during the Apollo 11,…

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Moon Apollo Metric Mapping Camera Data v1

application/pds-img 844 kBSep 25 2012

The Apollo Metric Mapping Cameras were carried on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions to map Earth’s Moon with a high degree of geometric fidelity. This archive collection consists of 7247 usable…

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Apollo Grover Historical Photo: B1

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James Irwin (left) and David Scott (right) drive Grover.

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Apollo Grover Historical Photo: B2

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James Irwin (left with checklist) and David Scott (right) drive Grover; closeup of seating area and camera.

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Apollo Grover Historical Photo: B3

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James Irwin with chest-mounted camera and David Scott (not visible) drive Grover.

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Apollo Grover Historical Photo: B4

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Charles Duke (left) and John Young (right) drive Grover; camera and transceiver covered in gold foil, fenders installed.

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Apollo Grover Historical Photo: B5

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Charles Duke (background) and John Young (foreground) drive Grover with canyon in background; panoramic view.

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Apollo Grover Historical Photo: B6

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Charles Duke (left) and John Young (right) drive Grover; camera and transceiver covered in gold foil, no fenders.

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Moon Apollo Image Processing

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-image-processing

In the early 1970s, specialized cameras onboard the Command Modules of the last three Apollo missions (15, 16, 17) photographed nearly 25% of the Moon in stunning detail. Today, scientists from…

Astrogeology 1963-2013: Fifty Years of Exploration

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/astrogeology-1963-2013-fifty-years-of-exploration

Grover Photo Collection

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/photos/grover-photo-collection

The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an engineering miracle, but It would have collapsed on Earth under the weight of a suited astronaut. That's because it was designed to operate in lunar gravity,…

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Interactive GIS Map of the Moon

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/mrctr/moon-online-map

Layers available for download from:USGS AstrogeologyData Portal: Astropediahistorical FTP downloads

Grover - Geologic Rover

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/grover

The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an engineering miracle, but It would have collapsed on Earth under the weight of a suited astronaut. That's because it was designed to operate in lunar gravity,…

Making Craters - Mare Tranquillitatis in Flagstaff Arizona

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/making-craters

The moon's Mare Tranquillitatis is an ancient plain of volcanic rock pocked with craters and coated with fine dust. In the 1960s, engineers and scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey's…

Rocket Flight

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/rocket-flight

The 1960s Apollo Lunar Module could support two men for three days, and the Apollo space suits carried only enough oxygen and cooling water for eight hours of work on the moon. Because of these…

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Videos

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos

The RPIF's 16-mm film collection contains historic films related to astronaut training, equipment field tests, geological expeditions and more.

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Moon Control Networks

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/control-networks/moon

Lunar Orbiter Lunar Control Network 2004 The USGS worked to digitize and restore a global set of Lunar Orbiter images and to assemble this into a global digital Lunar Orbiter mosaic of the Moon. A…

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Moon Pyroclastic Volcanism Project

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/moon-pyroclastic-volcanism-project

Project Overview The goal of this research project is to advance our understanding of pyroclastic volcanism on the Moon using remote sensing data, primarily the high-spatial-resolution (~100 m/pixel)…