Apollo 16 Booster Rocket Impact Site

[Waspie_Dwarf]

LRO Finds Apollo 16 Booster Rocket Impact Site

After decades of uncertainty, the Apollo 16 S-IVB impact site on the lunar surface has been identified. S-IVBs were portions of the Saturn V rockets that brought astronauts to the moon. The site was identified in imagery from the high-resolution LROC Narrow Angle Camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Beginning with Apollo 13, the S-IVB rocket stages were deliberately impacted on the lunar surface after they were used. Seismometers placed on the moon by earlier Apollo astronauts measured the energy of these impacts to shed light on the internal lunar structure. Locations of the craters that the boosters left behind were estimated from tracking data collected just prior to the impacts.

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[Merc14]

Having read the comments about this re. an article in the Dailymail (sad) I offer this in advance before someone asks why we can't see these Apollo artifacts with a telescope http://curious.astro...e-moon-beginner

Edited December 3, 2015 by Merc14

[Davros of Skaro]

Having read the comments about this re. an article in the Dailymail (sad) I offer this in advance before someone asks why we can't see these Apollo artifacts with a telescope http://curious.astro...e-moon-beginner

LOL!

That doesn't stop people claiming to see Crane equipment on the Moon.