Instrument Host Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.a12a::1.3
NAME The Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Experiments Package
TYPE Spacecraft
DESCRIPTION The Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was carried on the Apollo 12 lunar module spacecraft. It was powered by a central station around which scientific experiments were deployed, including a passive seismometer experiment (PSE), lunar surface magnetometer (LSM), solar wind spectrometer (SWS), suprathermal ion detector experiment (SIDE), cold cathode gauge experiment (CCGE), and a lunar dust detector.
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REFERENCES Apollo 12 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-235, 227 pages, published by NASA, Washington D.C., 1970.

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.

Clay, D.R., B.E. Goldstein, M. Neugebauer and C.W. Snyder, Lunar surface solar wind observations at the Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 sites, Journal of Geophysical Research, 80, 1751-1760, 1975.

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, doi:10.1029/1999JE001165.