Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a15photosupportdata:geom_orbital_photo_ephem::1.0
NAME Apollo 15 Metric (Mapping) and Panoramic Cameras - Photographic Ephemeris Support Data Collection
TYPE Data
DESCRIPTION This collection contains comma-separated ASCII tables of ephemeris data (spacecraft state vectors, camera orientation, photograph position, and lighting data) computed during the Apollo era for analyzing and using photographic images taken of the moon from 30 July to 4 August 1971 by the Apollo 15 Metric (Mapping) and Panoramic Cameras from lunar orbit. These tables were produced using optical character recognition (OCR) software to read TIFF images of scanned tabular output on microfilm. These scans were merged and provided in this collection as two PDF/A files, one for each camera.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Apollo 15 Photographic Ephemeris Support Data Bundle Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1518445 (from parent bundle)
AUTHOR LIST Robinson, M.S.; Cisneros, E.; Paris, C.N.
EDITOR LIST Williams, D.R.; McLaughlin, S.A.
PUBLICATION YEAR 2017
DESCRIPTION This collection contains comma-separated ASCII tables of ephemeris data (spacecraft state vectors, camera orientation, photograph position, and lighting data) computed during the Apollo era for analyzing and using photographic images taken of the moon from 30 July to 4 August 1971 by the Apollo 15 Metric (Mapping) and Panoramic Cameras from lunar orbit. These tables were produced using optical character recognition (OCR) software to read TIFF images of scanned tabular output on microfilm. These scans were merged and provided in this collection as two PDF/A files, one for each camera.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1971-07-30T02:16:36.967Z
STOP DATE TIME 1971-08-04T04:50:39.715Z
LOCAL MEAN SOLAR TIME
LOCAL TRUE SOLAR TIME
SOLAR LONGITUDE
PRIMARY RESULT PURPOSE OBSERVATION GEOMETRY
PRIMARY RESULT PROCESSING LEVEL Derived
PRIMARY RESULT DESCRIPTION Ephemeris data (spacecraft state vectors, camera orientation, photograph position, and lighting data) computed during the Apollo era for photographic images taken by the Apollo 15 Metric (Mapping) and Panoramic Cameras of the moon from lunar orbit during the time span of from July 30 to 04 August, 1971.
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME
INVESTIGATION APOLLO 15
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Apollo 15 Command and Service Module
Apollo 15 Metric (Mapping) Camera
Apollo 15 Panoramic Camera (Pancam)
TARGET MOON
REFERENCES Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-289, published by NASA, Washington, D.C., 1972.

Apollo Scientific Experiments Data Handbook, NASA Technical Memorandum X-58131, JSC-09166, published by NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, Aug. 1974 (revised Apr. 1976).