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Topic: Apollo 16 lunar rover final parking spot
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3336
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 04-26-2020 12:10 AM
  
Photo AS16-115-18559 has this caption: Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, drives the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) to its final parking place near the end of the third Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-3) at the Descartes landing site. Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this photograph looking southward. The flank of Stone Mountain can be seen on the horizon at left. The shadow of the Lunar Module (LM) occupies much of the picture. The caption is incorrect. The photo was taken during EVA-2 and shows John Young on the rover near the ALSEP site which was west of the LM. The final parking spot for the rover at the end of EVA-3 was east of the LM. |
Colin Anderton
Member Posts: 163
From: Great Britain
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 04-26-2020 07:48 AM
I remember... Young: Charlie, let me park the LM right there.Duke: Okay. The LM is already parked; but you sure can park the Rover. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3336
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 04-26-2020 07:55 AM
Frame 18552 taken a bit earlier is the opposite view: from the rover to the LM.
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Jonnyed
Member Posts: 417
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 04-26-2020 02:22 PM
Sparks an interesting question, was there a scientific value or a mission value to precisely where each J mission rover was finally parked? Did the coordinates of the rovers resting place matter at all?Or was it like parking a vehicle at a "junkyard" and abandoning it to the "magnificent desolation" to walk to the LM? |
One Big Monkey
Member Posts: 172
From: West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 04-26-2020 02:25 PM
It made it easier for the TV camera mounted on the rover to follow the launch, as the departing ascent module was moving away from the LRV, rather than over it or across it.Unfortunately the camera only worked properly on Apollo 17. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3336
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 04-26-2020 03:24 PM
Photo AS16-116-18716 is an EVA-3 photo of the LM taken at the final parking spot of the rover.
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3336
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 04-27-2020 06:08 AM
Both Young and Duke were at the rover at its final parking spot. On Apollo 15 and Apollo 17, only the commander was at the final parking spot of those rovers.Video clip of Gene Cernan driving rover from LM to the final parking spot. |
Space Cadet Carl
Member Posts: 230
From: Lake Orion, Michigan
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 04-27-2020 08:57 AM
I remember that short clip. Cernan forgot to turn off the GCTA on the rover before he jumped in to drive it to it's final parking spot. For just a few seconds during the drive, the rover's dish antenna just happened to point directly at Earth and a TV signal was received. |
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