Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Experiments Package Heat Flow Experiment ASCII Data Bundle

Overview
========
This PDS4 bundle (urn:nasa:pds:a15hfe_thermal_conductivity) contains Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment
data migrated from the PDS3 volume A15A-L-HFE-3-THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY-V1.0. 
This data set comprises a reduced, subsampled set of the data returned    
from the Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment (HFE) from 31 July 1971 through   
31 December 1974.  The experiment consisted of two probes placed by the   
Apollo 15 astronauts in holes drilled in the lunar surface near the       
Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) site to measure       
the thermal conductivity.  For more information on the experiment and     
instrumentation see the instrument.cat file in this directory.  The data  
consist of a set of ten ASCII tables with time, temperature differences,  
and average temperatures readings measured by the thermocouples in the    
heat flow probes and probe cables.  The data have been restored and       
reformatted from binary data held on magnetic tapes at the NASA National  
Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) under NSSDC ID of PSPG-00093 (old       
NSSDC 71-063C-06A). 

This bundle contains the following collections:

  data: Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment data products 
  (acquired from 1971-07-31 to 1974-12-31)

  document: 
	-description of the Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment data products
	-landing site maps
	-descriptions of the original magnetic data tapes from the Apollo 15 and 17 HFE
	-descriptions of the Apollo 15 mission 
	-descriptions of Apollo 15 ALSEP
	-descriptions of the Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment
	-Chapter 11, Heat Flow Experiment, of the Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report

Data Products and PDS Labels
============================

Every Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Experiments Package Heat Flow Experiment ASCII
data product is accompanied by a PDS label in a file with the 
same name as the data file, but with the extension ".xml", as PDS labels 
are written in XML (Extended Markup Language). The labels may be viewed in 
a text editor or web browser, preferably one that applies special formatting 
to XML files to make them more readable. The labels may also be read by 
software that can interpret XML. 

Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Experiments Package Heat Flow Experiment data are in 
ASCII tables. All these data files may be read using the PDS4 Viewer tool. 

Documentation
=============
       
Chapter 11 "Heat Flow Experiment" of the Apollo 15 
Preliminary Science Report in the document collection describes the instrument,
instrument deployment, and observations of the Apollo 15 Heat Flow
Experiment. This dataset is described in more detail in 
"dataset_description.txt" in the document collection.

==============
This bundle was created and archived by the Geosciences Node of the 
Planetary Data System. Questions about this bundle may be directed to 
geosci@wunder.wustl.edu.