Anthropogenic Sites on the Moon
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Anthropogenic Sites on the Moon
Credit: LROC
Description
Anthropogenic sites on the Moon are locations whereby through human-made intervention - soft-landed spacecraft, rovers and other deployed scientific payloads - has left a series of impact-related features of historic significance on the lunar surface. - JohnMoore2
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Left: View of tracks created by the Luna 17 Lunokhod 1 rover. Right: Impact craters created by spacecrafts and related physical parts of them.
Credit for both images: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. - JohnMoore2
Additional Information
I remember a story from NASA, mentioned in one of the SPACEFLIGHT NEWS magazines from Nigel Macknight. It was an article called Coins On The Moon, and it described the possibility of the presence of several coins on the lunar surface. These coins were (accidentally) drop'd by a NASA-technician into one of the S-IVB stages of the scientific missions (the J-series of the Apollo program). Five of the S-IVB stages impacted on the moon (Apollo 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17), but I wonder if (at that speed) those coins could have survived the enormous blast during such an S-IVB's impact on the moon. - DannyCaes Jan 23, 2018
Could have been the series of articles about the life and memories of NASA astronaut Robert "Bob" Overmyer (I.I.R.C., "Overt'ly Overmyer" it was called).
S-IVB (or S-4B; the third stage of the Apollo Saturn V rocket).
Nomenclature
LPOD Articles
LROC Articles
Bibliography
- Wagner, R. V. et al (2017). Coordinates of anthropogenic features on the Moon - Icarus Volume 283, pp. 92 - 103, Feb 2017.
- (2013). LROC Coordinates of Robotic Spacecraft 2013 Update - NASA news, 2013.
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