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    The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of...
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    experiments not part of the ALSEP were also flown, the Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR or LR3), to be deployed in the ALSEP's vicinity, and the Lunar Portable...
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    Apollo 12 (section ALSEP)
    some tasks, such as deployment of the ALSEP, required humans. In 1966, a contract to design and build the ALSEPs was awarded to the Bendix Corporation...
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    and Apollo 16 as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). ASE used a thumper device and a mortar with explosive charges to explore...
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    placed on the lunar surface on February 5, 1971, as part of the Apollo 14 ALSEP package. The PSE was designed to detect vibrations and tilting of the lunar...
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    Apollo 12 mission as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). The PSE was designed to detect vibrations and tilting of the lunar surface...
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    part of the Apollo program's Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). It was contained as part of the same housing as the Suprathermal Ion Detector...
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    MET consisted of part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP)., including a portable magnetometer, as well as various tools and space...
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    support for all packages of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) flying as part of the Apollo Program. The instrument's primary sensor was...
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    Apollo 17 (section ALSEP)
    maneuverability of the rover, the crew deployed the ALSEP just west of the landing site. The ALSEP deployment took longer than had been planned, with the...
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    Apollo 14 mission as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), was designed to measure the energy spectra of low-energy charged particles...
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    rest of the ALSEP experiments near the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow valley. The instrument was placed northeast of the ALSEP, 7.5 m (25 ft)...
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    ALSEP site and the LM. There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50 m (160 ft) east of the ALSEP...
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    from commands generated by the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). These sensors were thermally controlled by thermistors driving the operation...
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    internationally for space research and operations, though by 2014 standards the ALSEP uplink was in the wrong part of the band (deep space instead of near earth)...
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    The instrument on Apollo 16 was deployed but the cable from it to the ALSEP central station was broken and the experiment was rendered inoperable. A...
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    deployed as part of the ALSEP package. Geophones 1 and 2 would be placed to run in sequence aligned with the Sun either side of the ALSEP package. The other...
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  • 1970s for gun shells and for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) seismic experiments, although the latter experiments are usually cited...
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    Contract NAS9-5911, Rice University Description of SIDE/ CCGE Experiments for ALSEP (1966), R.M Magee NON (1965-06-01). Apollo lunar science program report...
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    activities (EVAs) to setting up the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) group of scientific instruments; during the second, Lovell and Haise would...
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    "Observations with the Solar Wind Spectrometers of Apollo-12 and Apollo-15 ALSEPs". Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Vol. 3. Lunar...
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    and Apollo 15 as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). The LRRR consists of a series of corner reflectors set within a panel...
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    OCLC 1023166907. Bates, James R.; Lauderdale, W. W.; Kernaghan, Harold (April 1979). ALSEP Termination Report (PDF) (Report). Washington, D.C.: NASA. RP-1036. Archived...
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    (ALSEP). Scott would drill the holes for the heat-flow experiment and put in the probes, while Irwin would set up the rest of the equipment. The ALSEP...
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    original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019. "Apollo 12 Lunar Module / ALSEP". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved...
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    missions did not use SSTV. At least some of the telemetry tapes from the ALSEP scientific experiments left on the Moon (which ran until 1977) still exist...
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    carry, among other things: the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages ALSEP, the modularized equipment transporter (MET) (a hand-pulled equipment cart...
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    the Soviet radio telescope RATAN-600 observed all five transmitters of ALSEP scientific packages placed on the Moon surface by all Apollo landing missions...
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    Experiments Package (ALSEP). The magnetometer continued to work several months after that return module departed. As part of the Apollo 14 ALSEP, there was a...
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    samples and prepare to set up the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the scientific instruments that would remain when they left. Scott had...
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