Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a15hfe_raw_arcsav:document::1.0
NAME Apollo 15 ALSEP ARCSAV Heat Flow Experiment Raw Cleaned ASCII Document Collection (1975-092 to 1975-181)
TYPE Document
DESCRIPTION This collection contains documentation for the Apollo 15 ALSEP ARCSAV Heat Flow Experiment Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Collection (1975-092 to 1975-181). It includes a description of the raw data products and the Fortran programs used to extract data from raw binary Apollo 15 HFE ARCSAV files and transform to ASCII.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Apollo 15 ALSEP ARCSAV Heat Flow Experiment Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1518443 (from parent bundle)
AUTHORS Nakamura, Y.; Nagihara, S.
EDITORS Williams, D.R.; McLaughlin, S.A.
PUBLICATION YEAR 2018
DESCRIPTION This collection contains documentation for the Apollo 15 ALSEP ARCSAV Heat Flow Experiment Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Collection (1975-092 to 1975-181). It includes a description of the raw data products and the Fortran programs used to extract data from raw binary Apollo 15 HFE ARCSAV files and transform to ASCII.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1975-04-01T11:59:46.642Z
STOP DATE TIME 1975-06-30T11:59:45.158Z
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 15
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Apollo 15 ALSEP
Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment
TARGET MOON
REFERENCES Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-289, NASA, Washington, D.C., 1972.

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Systems Handbook: ALSEP A2, PCN-1, unnumbered, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, 24 March 1971, revised 15 April 1971.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nagihara, S., W.S. Kiefer, P.T. Taylor, D.R. Williams, and Y. Nakamura, Examination of the long-term subsurface warming observed at the Apollo 15 and 17 sites utilizing the newly restored heat flow experiment data from 1975 to 1977, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123, 1125-1139, 2018.