Instrument Host Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.a15a::1.3
NAME The Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Experiments Package
TYPE Spacecraft
DESCRIPTION The Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was carried on the Apollo 15 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), laser ranging retroreflector (LRRR), heat flow experiment (HFE), and a lunar dust detector.
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REFERENCES Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-289, 546 pages, published by NASA, Washington, D.C., 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, doi:10.1029/1999JE001165.