urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:metriccam.a16c 1.0 1.8.0.0 Product_Context Apollo 16 Mapping Camera Apollo 16 Mapping Camera A16 Metric Camera A16 Metric Camera A16 Mapping Camera A16 Mapping Camera 2016-12-20 1.0 Created by the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.a16c instrument_to_instrument_host urn:nasa:pds:apollodoc:a16doc:a16c_metriccam_overview instrument_to_document Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-315, 622 pages, published by NASA, Washington, D.C., 1972. reference.APOLLO17A1973 Apollo Scientific Experiments Data Handbook, NASA Technical Memorandum X-58131, JSC-09166, published by NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, Aug. 1974. reference.APOLLOSEDH1974 Cameron, W.S., E.J. Mantel, and E.R. Miller, Catalog of Lunar Mission Data, NASA Technical Memorandum X-72612, NSSDC 77-02, published by NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), Greenbelt, Maryland, July 1977. Cameron, W.S., F.J. Doyle, M.A. Niksch, K. Hug, L. Levenson, and K. Michlovitz, Data User's Note - Apollo 16 Lunar Photography, published by NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), Greenbelt, Maryland, May, 1973. Apollo 16 Metric (Mapping) Camera Imager -916240 not applicable The Apollo 16 Metric (Mapping) Camera obtained high-quality metric photographs, on black and white film, with high geometric precision of the lunar surface from lunar orbit combined with time-correlated stellar photography for selenodetic/cartographic control. A laser altimeter was operated with it. The Metric Camera also provided supporting photographic data for the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) Panoramic Camera and other Command Service Module (CSM) photographic experiments. he Apollo 16 Metric Camera took 2514 frames of lunar surface imagery. Another 927 frames were exposed over unlighted areas in support of the laser altimeter experiment. This description was provided by the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive.