Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a16lsm_raw_arcsav:data::1.0
NAME Apollo 16 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Magnetometer Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Collection (1975-092 to 1975-181)
TYPE Data
DESCRIPTION This collection contains fixed-width ASCII files of daily raw cleaned science and engineering measurements acquired by the Lunar Surface Magnetometer (LSM) at the Apollo 16 landing site for the time span of 02 April through 30 June 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 LSM-related command verification data extracted from the ARCSAV binary files.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Apollo 16 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Magnetometer Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1518447 (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 and engineering measurements acquired by the Lunar Surface Magnetometer (LSM) at the Apollo 16 landing site for the time span of 02 April through 30 June 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 LSM-related command verification data extracted from the ARCSAV binary files.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1975-04-01T11:59:56.328Z
STOP DATE TIME 1975-06-30T11:59:49.323Z
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 16
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Apollo 16 ALSEP
Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Magnetometer
TARGET MOON
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Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Systems, Apollo 16 ALSEP, Array D, Flight System Familiarization Manual, The Bendix Corporation for NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, ALSEP MT-06, 15 July 1971.

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.

Dyal, P., C.W. Parkin, and C.P. Sonnett, Lunar Surface Magnetometer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics, Vol. GE-8, No. 4, pp. 203-215, October 1970.

Dyal, P., C.W. Parkin, and W.D. Daily, Surface magnetometer experiments: Internal lunar properties, Proceedings of the Fourth Lunar Science Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Supplement 4, ed. by W.A. Gose, Vol. 3, Pergamon Press, New York, pp. 2925-2945, 1973.

Dyal, P., Final Report Apollo Lunar Surface Magnetometer and Portable Magnetometer Network, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 11 July 1977.