Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a17lsg_raw_arcsav:document::1.0
NAME Apollo 17 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Gravimeter Raw Cleaned ASCII Document Collection (1975-092 to 1975-181)
TYPE Document
DESCRIPTION This collection contains documentation for the Apollo 17 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Gravimeter 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 17 LSG ARCSAV files and transform to ASCII.
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 documentation for the Apollo 17 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Gravimeter 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 17 LSG ARCSAV files and transform to ASCII.
   
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 Description of the products in the Apollo 17 ALSEP ARCSAV Lunar Surface Gravimeter Raw Cleaned ASCII Data Collection (1975-092 to 1975-181) and the Fortran programs that created those ASCII products.
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 Systems Handbook: Apollo 17, ALSEP 5 - Array E / Document Change 1, Unnumbered, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, 8 August 1972, updated 6 October 1972.

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.

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.

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.