On the six Apollo lunar landed missions, the Astronauts deployed the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) science stations which measured active and passive seismic events, magnetic fields, charged particles, solar wind, heat flow, the diffuse atmosphere, meteorites and their ejecta, lunar dust, etc. Today s investigators are able to extract new information and make new discoveries from the old ALSEP data utilizing recent advances in computer capabilities and new analysis techniques. However, current-day investigators are encountering problems in trying to use the ALSEP data. The data were in formats often not well described in the published reports and contained rerecording anomalies which required tape experts to resolve. To solve these problems the DPS Lunar Data Node was established at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) in 2008 and is currently in the process of making the existing archived ALSEP data available to current-day investigators in easily useable forms. However, current estimates by NSSDC archivists are that only about 60 percent of the PI processed ALSEP data and less than 30 percent of the raw experiment ALSEP data-of-interest to current lunar science investigators are currently in the NSSDC archives.


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    Titel :

    NLSI Focus Group on Recovery of Missing ALSEP Data: Status Update for 2012 NLSI Science Forum


    Beteiligte:
    Lewis, Lyach R. (Autor:in) / Nakamura, Y. (Autor:in) / Nagihara, S. (Autor:in) / Williams, D. R. (Autor:in) / Chi, P. (Autor:in) / Taylor, P. T. (Autor:in) / Schmidt, G. K. (Autor:in) / Hill, H. K. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    NASA Science Lunar Institute (NLSI) Forum Meeting ; 2012 ; Moffett Field, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-07-17


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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