Apollo 16 landing site
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The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geological exploration site
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lunar landing site ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| evaCount | 3 ⓘ |
| experimentDeployed |
ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cosmic Ray Detector NERFINISHED ⓘ Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar Portable Magnetometer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar Surface Magnetometer NERFINISHED ⓘ Passive Seismic Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Soil Mechanics Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ Solar Wind Composition Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Cayley Formation
NERFINISHED
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Descartes crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Flag Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ House Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ North Ray Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Plum Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ South Ray Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Spook Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Stone Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingLatitudeApprox | 8.973° S ⓘ |
| landingLongitudeApprox | 15.500° E ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Descartes Highlands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lunar highlands ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lunarMareProximity | southeast of Mare Insularum ⓘ |
| missionLandingDate | 1972-04-21 ⓘ |
| missionLunarLandingDateUTC | 1972-04-21T02:23:35Z ⓘ |
| missionLunarLiftoffDateUTC | 1972-04-24T01:25:47Z ⓘ |
| missionNumber | Apollo 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionSequenceInApolloProgram | 10th crewed Apollo mission ⓘ |
| missionSequenceLunarLanding | 5th crewed lunar landing ⓘ |
| operatedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitalCommandModulePilot | Thomas K. Mattingly II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | geological exploration of lunar highlands ⓘ |
| regionHemisphere | near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| resultFinding | terrain dominated by impact breccias rather than volcanic flows ⓘ |
| sampleMassReturnedKg | 95.8 ⓘ |
| sampleMassReturnedLb | 211 ⓘ |
| scientificFocus |
highlands geology
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impact breccias ⓘ lunar crustal evolution ⓘ magnetic and plasma environment ⓘ regolith mechanics ⓘ |
| selectionRationale |
representative of ancient lunar highlands crust
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to test Descartes region volcanic hypothesis ⓘ |
| surfaceType |
brecciated highland crust
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rugged highlands terrain ⓘ |
| totalEVAOnSurfaceHours | 20.23 ⓘ |
| usedByMission | Apollo 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedByAstronaut |
Charles M. Duke Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John W. Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedByLunarModule | Orion (Apollo 16 Lunar Module) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedByLunarRover | Apollo 16 Lunar Roving Vehicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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