Apollo 16 Landing Site

[mike.brightmore]

Hi imagers / sketchers

I'm the sec. of the Cleethorpes & District AS. At our next meeting one of our members, Peter Rea, is giving a talk on the Apollo 16 mission. Does anyone have any close ups or sketches of the landing site area? Neil has posted an absolutely beautiful image of Theophilus but by my reckoning the landing site is to the north west. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[lunator]

Mike

I'm sure some of the imagers have a pic of the appropriate area.

Cheers

Ian

[Ant]

I have no idea where the landing site is - this is an image of Theophilus and Cyrillus. So could be of use.

Feel free to use...

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Ant

[mike.brightmore]

Thanks for that Ant. According to the Virtual Moon Atlas the landing site is about half way between Theophilus and Hipparchus

[Talitha]

It's plain to see that I'm not an imager but you're more than welcome to use this single shot studyframe from 3 Nov 2004 if nothing else turns up, Mike. Need it labelled?

[mike.brightmore]

Many thanks Carol. As always you are spot on and this is a good image. I've attached the Virtual Moon image at about the same magnification and can work out the names of all the surrounding craters from that. Do you agree with the landing site marked?

Any more images at different magnifications would still be appreciated so I can do a little series that gives the impression of parachuting in to the landing site.

A few years ago my daughter bought me an acre of moon. When I get the observatory set up there SGL members will be welcome to use it

[Talitha]

Thanks Mike, here's two more versions. I hope you get lots more images, and best of luck to Peter with the presentation.

[David Galvin]

Have you seen this set of 'slides'? It goes down to 200 meters.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/apollolanding/ApolloLanding/apollolanding_index.shtml

[mike.brightmore]

Thanks again Carol. Your praises will be sang in a small corner of England. David those slides are great and well worth knowing about. I'm really enjoying looking at them and they will be a good resource for this and for the future.

Mike.

[beamish]

These are from NASA's archive

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[stefski]

Just looking at these landing sites etc....Is there any reason why we are able to see the Mars rovers in the high res images taken by MRO, but can't see any of the stuff left behind by the Apollo missions, despite the plethera of moon images/satellites?

Stef

[mike.brightmore]

Hi Stef

There is a good recent thread on this subject in the Observing > discussion section "Can we see evidence of us on the Moon?"

Mike

[stefski]

Cheers Mike I'll take a peek....