Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a12sws_raw_arcsav:data::1.0
NAME Apollo 12 ALSEP ARCSAV Solar Wind Spectrometer Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Collection (1975-093 to 1975-182)
TYPE Data
DESCRIPTION This collection contains fixed-width ASCII files of daily raw cleaned science measurements and daily raw calibration and engineering data acquired by the Solar Wind Spectrometer (SWS) at the Apollo 12 landing site for the time span of 03 April through 01 July 1975. These data were extracted from NASA's original Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) archive tapes, also known as ARCSAV tapes, that recorded 24-hour, time-edited, and rearranged raw binary data transmitted from the Moon. The extracted binary data were corrected for obvious tape read errors then transformed to ASCII format for this archive. This collection also includes one ASCII file of SWS-related command verification data extracted from the ARCSAV binary files.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Apollo 12 ALSEP ARCSAV Solar Wind Spectrometer Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1518440 (from parent bundle)
AUTHORS Nakamura, Y.; Nagihara, S.
EDITORS Williams, D.R.; McLaughlin, S.A.
PUBLICATION YEAR 2018
DESCRIPTION This collection contains fixed-width ASCII files of daily raw cleaned science measurements and daily raw calibration and engineering data acquired by the Solar Wind Spectrometer (SWS) at the Apollo 12 landing site for the time span of 03 April through 01 July 1975. These data were extracted from NASA's original Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) archive tapes, also known as ARCSAV tapes, that recorded 24-hour, time-edited, and rearranged raw binary data transmitted from the Moon. The extracted binary data were corrected for obvious tape read errors then transformed to ASCII format for this archive. This collection also includes one ASCII file of SWS-related command verification data extracted from the ARCSAV binary files.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1975-04-02T11:55:08.448Z
STOP DATE TIME 1975-07-01T11:59:47.871Z
LOCAL MEAN SOLAR TIME
LOCAL TRUE SOLAR TIME
SOLAR LONGITUDE
PRIMARY RESULT PURPOSE Science
PRIMARY RESULT PROCESSING LEVEL Raw
PRIMARY RESULT DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME
INVESTIGATION Apollo 12
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Apollo 12 ALSEP
Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer
TARGET MOON
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Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Systems Handbook, ALSEP 1, Change 1, Unnumbered, Flight Control Division, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, January 15, 1969.

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ALSEP Familiarization Course Handout For Training Purposes Only, BSR 2264-B, The Bendix Corporation for NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, May 1969.

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual, Revision B, ALSEP-MT-03, NASA CR-99604, The Bendix Corporation for NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, published 1 August 1967, revised 15 April 1969.

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual, Revision B / Change 1, ALSEP-MT-03, NASA CR-99604, The Bendix Corporation for NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, 18 March 1970.

Final Report for ALSEP Arrays A, B, C, and A-2, NASA-CR-134202, BSR 4096, The Bendix Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, September 1973.

Bates, J.R., W.W. Lauderdale, and H. Kernaghan, ALSEP termination report, NASA Reference Publication Series, NASA-RP-1036, 162 pages, published by NASA, Washington, D.C., 1979.

Clay, D.R., B.E. Goldstein, M. Neugebauer, and C.W. Snyder, Lunar surface solar wind observations at the Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 sites, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 80, Number 13, pages 1751-1760, 1975.

Davies, M.E., and T.R. Colvin, Lunar coordinates in the regions of the Apollo landers, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 105, Issue E8, pages 20,227-20,280, 2000.

Goldstein, B.E., D.R. Clay, C.W. Snyder, and M. Neugebauer, ALSEP solar wind spectrometer plasma data as observed at the Apollo 12 and 15 landing sites, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, NASA Contract NAS7-100, 1973.

Lauderdale, W.W., and W.F. Eichelman, Apollo Scientific Experiments Data Handbook, NASA, TM-X-58131, Houston, Texas, August 1974, updated August 1976.

Nagihara, S., Y. Nakamura, L.R. Lewis, D.R. Williams, P.T. Taylor, E.J. Grayzeck, P. Chi, and G.K. Schmidt, Search and Recovery Efforts for the ALSEP Data Tapes, 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7-11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contribution No. 1608, Abstract 1103, 2011.

Nagihara, S., Y. Nakamura, D.R. Williams, P.T. Taylor, W.S. Kiefer, M.A. Hager, and H.K. Hills, Availability Of Previously Unprocessed ALSEP Raw Instrument Data and Derivative Data and Metadata Products, 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 21-25, 2016 at The Woodlands, Texas, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contribution No. 1903, Abstract 1194, 2016.

Neugebauer, M., C.W. Snyder, D.R. Clay, and B.E. Goldstein, Solar wind observations on the lunar surface with the Apollo-12 ALSEP, Planetary and Space Science, Volume 20, Issue 10, pages 1577-1591, 1972.