Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a17lsg_raw_arcsav:data::1.0
NAME Apollo 17 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Gravimeter 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 measurements acquired by the Lunar Surface Gravimeter (LSG) at the Apollo 17 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 ASCII files of LSG-related command verification and raw analog housekeeping data extracted from the ARCSAV binary files.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Apollo 17 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Gravimeter Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Data Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1518453 (from parent bundle)
AUTHOR LIST Nakamura, Y.; Nagihara, S.
EDITOR LIST Williams, D.R.; McLaughlin, S.A.
PUBLICATION YEAR 2018
DESCRIPTION This collection contains fixed-width ASCII files of daily raw cleaned science measurements acquired by the Lunar Surface Gravimeter (LSG) at the Apollo 17 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 ASCII files of LSG-related command verification and raw analog housekeeping data extracted from the ARCSAV binary files.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1975-04-01T11:59:59.429Z
STOP DATE TIME 1975-06-30T11:59:59.905Z
LOCAL MEAN SOLAR TIME
LOCAL TRUE SOLAR TIME
SOLAR LONGITUDE
PRIMARY RESULT PURPOSE SCIENCE
PRIMARY RESULT PROCESSING LEVEL Raw
PRIMARY RESULT DESCRIPTION Seismic, tidal, and free-mode measurements taken on the surface of the Moon by the Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Gravimeter during the time span of 02 April through 30 June 1975 to determine gravitational acceleration and its temporal variations, vertical components of lunar natural seismicity, deformation due to tidal force, and free oscillations of the Moon induced by gravitational waves from cosmic sources (null result).
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME
INVESTIGATION APOLLO 17
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Apollo 17 ALSEP
Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Gravimeter
TARGET MOON
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Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package: Apollo 17 ALSEP (Array E) Familiarization Course Handout, NASA CR-128636, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, September 1972.

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.

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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.

Nunn, C., R.F. Garcia, Y. Nakamura, A.G. Marusiak, T. Kawamura, D. Sun, L. Margerin, R. Weber, M. Drilleau. M.A. Wieczorek, A. Khan, A. Rivoldini, P.Lognonne, P. Zhu, Lunar Seismology: a data and instrumentation review, Space Science Reviews, submitted 2019.

Giganti, J.J, J.V. Larson, J.P. Richard, R.L. Tobias, J. Weber, Lunar Surface Gravimeter Experiment - Final Report to National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA-CR-151203, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 1977.

Tobias, R.L, The lunar surface gravimeter and the search for gravitational radiation, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 1978.