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At the suggestion of the Planetology Subcommittee of the Space Sciences Steering Committee, an active engineering seismic experiment originally proposed by J. S. Watkins, J. Cl. De Bremaecker, and M. F. Kane was incorporated into the Early Apollo Active Seismic Experiment originally proposed by R. L. Kovach . J. S. Watkins was made co-experimenter for the Early Apollo Active Seismic Experiment with the responsibility of developing the engineering seismic part of the experiment (sometimes called the Short Array); R. L. Kovach was appointed the principal investigator for the experiment with overall responsibility for the development of the experiment , and particular responsibility for the development of his mortar-firing...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to land two astronauts on the Moon as a part of the Apollo Space Program. The questions arise: What should the astronauts do on the surface and what information should they gather? This report proposes answers to these questions by describing a possible series of scientific activities, or mission profiles, to be performed by the astronauts on the lunar surface during the first seven missions.
Systems and shirt-sleeve operations tests were conducted at the Bonito Flow test site from April 5 through April 9. The tests provided the opportunity to evaluate field test logistics, systems compatibility, systems operation, and geological field and control center operations. This report summarizes the evaluations that bear on the potential usefulness of systems and operations.
Details of field exercises to assess the readiness of astronauts to perform geologic investigations on the lunar surface. They include landscape description, geologic mapping, mobile traverse descriptions, impact crater description, depression description, and detailed mapping.
These suggestions are largely a result of two closely allied factors: first, a tape recording--either direct or one made via radio--should enable· a field geologist to record many more observations per unit time than can be made in a notebook. The observations should be to the point, but there is no reason for them to be cryptic and so potentially ambiguous to another person. Second, persons in a data facility usually have to form a mental image of the scene being described by the field man in order to understand and to plot the data. The field man therefore has to describe objects by some logical systematic procedure.
Monthly report to show updates on personnel and conferences and scientific meetings. Includes unpublished works and works in progress.
In several respects the Nevada Test Site is located in an area that is especially interesting geologically. It lies along the projected trend of the Walker Lane and the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone (Locke and others, 1940; Longwell, 1960), one of the major crustal features of the Basin-Range province. The shear zone itself, however, may not continue through the Test Site in a simple way (Burchfiel, 1965). The Test Site is in a belt of late Mesozoic thrust faults along the eastern side of the Cordilleran miogeosyncline. The eastern part of the Test Site area is characterized by the parallel Cenozoic topographic and structural elements generally associated with the Basin-Range province; the western part of the area...
Geophysical surveys conducted at Zuni Salt Lake, Hopi Buttes, and Meteor Crater show anomalies that are representative of the varied geologic history of these test areas. This report presents only a qualitative representation of results obtained at the three major test sites: Zuni Salt Lake, Hopi Buttes, and Meteor Crater. Individual reports on each test site will examine and interpret geophysical anomalies in greater detail.
Apollo Applications Program Field Test 5 was held March 14-18, 1966, in the Hopi Buttes area, Arizona. The objectives of the test were to 1) evaluate techniques of field checking a moderately complex photogeologic map--techniques potentially useful for lunar geologic exploration; 2) test the feasibility of using a vehicle mounted magnetometer and applying the magnetometer results to real time geologic mapping and interpretation; and 3) evaluate the use of a petrographic microscope as a possible analytical tool for lunar exploration. The test results indicated that for real-time mapping at a station remote from the fieldwork, persons working in the field and at the remote station must be trained as a team, and that...
A shirtsleeve test of geologic reconnaissance methods applicable to lunar surface exploration was conducted using astronauts as subjects. The task analysis objective was to determine the efficiency of a 2-man traverse. A table summarizes the full-day traverse, and a process chart (time line) is included in the report. It was concluded that two astronauts can complement each other's work with little or no time lost by one waiting for the other.
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