Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:a17photosupportdata:geom_orbital_photo_ephem::1.2
NAME Apollo 17 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 on 10-16 December 1972 by the Apollo 17 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 17 Photographic Ephemeris Support Data Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1518454 (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 on 10-16 December 1972 by the Apollo 17 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 1972-12-10T09:41:30.846Z
STOP DATE TIME 1972-12-16T08:53:24.680Z
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 17 Metric (Mapping) and Panoramic Cameras of the moon from lunar orbit.
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME
INVESTIGATION APOLLO 17
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Apollo 17 Command and Service Module
Apollo 17 Metric (Mapping) Camera
Apollo 17 Panoramic Camera (Pancam)
TARGET MOON
REFERENCES Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-330, published by NASA, Washington, D.C., 1973.

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).