The Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment

Apollo 11 Seismic Experiment - NASA Science

The Passive Seismic Experiment was the first seismometer placed on the Moon's surface. It detected lunar moonquakes and provided information about the internal ...

Passive Seismic Experiment, Apollo | National Air and Space Museum

The seismic instrument package continued sending data for several weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. The seismic experiments left on the surface by the crews of ...

Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE) - the NSSDCA

The Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE) was placed on the lunar surface as part of the Apollo 15 ALSEP package. The PSE was designed to detect vibrations and ...

Apollo 12 Passive Seismic Experiment - Wikipedia

The PSE was designed to detect vibrations and tilting of the lunar surface and measure changes in gravity at the instrument location. The vibrations are due to ...

Passive Seismic Experiment Package - Wikipedia

The Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP) was a scientific experiment deployed on the lunar surface by the astronauts of Apollo 11 as part of the Early ...

The Description of Apollo Seismic Experiments - darts

Passive seismic stations were installed on the lunar surface during Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16.Station 11 operated only 21 Earth days before the loss ...

The Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment - jstor

In addition to collecting rock samples for return to the earth, the astronauts will install a number of experiments on the lunar surface. This paper describes ...

Results from the apollo-12 passive seismic experiment - USGS.gov

The objective of the passive seismic experiment is to measure vibrations of the lunar surface produced by all natural and artificial sources of seismic ...

6. Passive Seismic Experimen f

quility Base as part of the Apollo 11 mission. The Passive Seismic Experiment Package and was operated for 21 days. It demonstrated. (PSEP), which was ...

6. Passive Seismic Experiment

The moonquakes occurred most frequently near the time of closest approach between the Earth and the Moon (perigee), suggesting that the moon- quakes are ...

Results from the apollo-12 passive seismic experiment

The objective of the passive seismic experiment is to measure vibrations of the lunar surface produced by all natural and artificial sources of seismic ...

Passive Seismic Experiment, Apollo | Smithsonian Institution

The seismic instrument package continued sending data for several weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. The seismic experiments left on the surface by the crews of ...

Apollo 11 passive seismic experiment - NASA ADS

The astronauts' footfalls were detected at all points along their traverse (maximum range approximately 40 m). Maximum signal levels of 1 2 ~i at frequencies of ...

Passive Seismic Experiment (Package)

It was learned that the LM is a source of seismic signals of unexpectedly large amplitudes. Astronaut activities were also recorded by the instrument. Later ...

XA (1969-1977): Apollo Passive Seismic Experiments - FDSN

FDSN is a global organization supporting seismology research.

How Apollo 11s moonquakes changed our understanding of ...

Among these instruments was the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP). As the first seismometer in space, it detected “moonquakes”, impacts, ...

Passive seismic experiment - PubMed

Seismometer operation for 21 days at Tranquillity Base revealed, among strong signals produced by the Apollo 11 lunar module descent stage, a small proportion ...

Passive Seismic Experiment - Science

Seismometer operation for 21 days at Tranquillity Base revealed, among strong signals produced by the Apollo 11 lunar module descent stage, ...

A Catalog of Seismic Events from the Apollo 11 Passive Seismic ...

The Apollo 11 Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP) provided the first seismic data from another body in the Solar System. Here, we reexamine the Apollo ...

A New Archive of Apollo's Lunar Seismic Data - IOPscience

The Apollo astronauts deployed seismic experiments on the nearside of the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Five stations collected passive seismic data.