The Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEAM) was a lunar science experiment that flew to the Moon on board Apollo 17 in 1972. It collected information...
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Apollo (spacecraft) (section Lunar Module (LM))
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages ALSEP, the modularized equipment transporter (MET) (a hand-pulled equipment cart used on Apollo 14), the Lunar Rover...
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Research: Planets. Retrieved July 9, 2018 – via Eos (magazine). Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Don L. Lind oral...
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United States Apollo Lunar Modules flown on lunar landing missions Apollo 11 through Apollo 17, to be left permanently on the lunar surface. The plaques...
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Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment, Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment, and Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment.: 2-1 Each ALSEP experiment had...
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Detector Experiment (SIDE) was a lunar science experiment, first deployed by astronauts on the lunar surface in 1969 as part of Apollo 12, and later flying...
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Apollo TV camera (redirect from Westinghouse Apollo Lunar Television Camera)
camera was used on the lunar surface. All of these cameras required signal processing back on Earth to make the frame rate and color encoding compatible...
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Earth. Apollo 17 also placed an experiment on the Moon's surface called LEAM, short for Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites. It was designed to look for dust...
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Moon rock (redirect from Lunar sample)
of Lunar Meteorites - Feldspathic to Basaltic Order". meteorites.wustl.edu. Retrieved September 11, 2023. "Northwest Africa 12691". The Meteoritical Society...
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Apollo 17 (redirect from Lunar Module Challenger)
Profiling Experiment (LSPE), to detect nearby seismic activity, and a Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEME), to measure the velocity and energy of...
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Fallen Astronaut (category Monuments and memorials)
government space program. Before his Apollo 15 lunar mission, astronaut David Scott met Belgian painter and printmaker Paul Van Hoeydonck at a dinner party...
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regolith, and some water is chemically bonded with minerals. Other experiments have detected water molecules in the negligible lunar atmosphere, and even some...
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Geology of the Moon (redirect from Lunar surface)
about 4 and 3.85 Ga ago. This hypothesis is referred to as the lunar cataclysm or late heavy bombardment. However, it is now recognized that ejecta from...
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instruments. Apollo 17 also placed an experiment on the Moon's surface called LEAM (Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites). It looked for dust kicked up by small...
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meteorites that are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of ferronickel; and stony-iron meteorites that...
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Mauritius, New Zealand, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone and Trinidad and Tobago. List of time capsules Lunar plaque List of artificial objects on the Moon "Apollo...
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Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
Earth and a hypothesized Mars-sized body called Theia. The lunar surface is covered in lunar dust and marked by mountains, impact craters, their ejecta, ray-like...
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Ray system (section Lunar rays)
Lichtenberg on the moon), or by other impact craters or ejecta. The physical nature of lunar rays has historically been a subject of speculation. Early...
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Moon landing conspiracy theories (redirect from Lunar hoax)
and lunar surface during impact events, and that some of these have landed on the Earth as meteorites. However, the first Antarctic lunar meteorite was...
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Giant-impact hypothesis (redirect from Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation)
Collisions between ejecta escaping Earth's gravity and asteroids would have left impact heating signatures in stony meteorites; analysis based on assuming...
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Apollo 16 (redirect from Lunar Module Orion)
Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE, a seismometer), an Active Seismic Experiment (ASE), a Lunar Heat Flow Experiment (HFE), and a Lunar Surface Magnetometer...
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Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, 1971, by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot James...
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Apollo 14 (redirect from Lunar Module Antares)
Shepard and Mitchell were on the surface, Roosa remained in lunar orbit aboard the Command and Service Module, performing scientific experiments and photographing...
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e., sediments, spherules, soils, and dust). The discoveries and compositions of meteorites and long-distance ejecta are given in the next section. A later...
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Ivanov, Andrei; Zolensky, Michael (2003). "The Kaidun Meteorite: Where Did It Come From?" (PDF). Lunar and Planetary Science. 34. The currently available data...
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243 Ida (section Discovery and observations)
S-type asteroids and OC meteorites. S-types are the most numerous kind of asteroid in the inner part of the asteroid belt. OC meteorites are, likewise,...
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Chandrayaan programme (redirect from Indian Lunar Exploration Program)
radiation, meteorites, micrometeorites, and ejecta from impacts. They are also insulated from the extreme temperature variations on the lunar surface. Landing...
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footballer Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model, a computer model Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites, a lunar science experiment Almería Airport, Spain,...
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pressure shock metamorphism during meteorite impact cratering and is a common component of a type of glassy ejecta called tektites. Most tektites are...
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Chandrayaan-2 (category Lunar rovers)
Chandrayaan-2 (pronunciation; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research...
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