Apollo 16 landing site

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The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geological exploration site ⓘ
lunar landing site ⓘ
countryOfOperator United States ⓘ
evaCount 3 ⓘ
experimentDeployed ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package) ⓘ
Cosmic Ray Detector ⓘ
Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph ⓘ
Lunar Portable Magnetometer ⓘ
Lunar Surface Magnetometer ⓘ
Passive Seismic Experiment ⓘ
Soil Mechanics Investigation ⓘ
Solar Wind Composition Experiment ⓘ
hasNearbyFeature Cayley Formation ⓘ
Descartes crater ⓘ
Flag Crater ⓘ
House Rock ⓘ
North Ray Crater ⓘ
Plum Crater ⓘ
Shadow Rock ⓘ
South Ray Crater ⓘ
Spook Crater ⓘ
Stone Mountain ⓘ
landingLatitudeApprox 8.973° S ⓘ
landingLongitudeApprox 15.500° E ⓘ
locatedIn Descartes Highlands ⓘ
lunar highlands ⓘ
locatedOn Moon ⓘ
lunarMareProximity southeast of Mare Insularum ⓘ
missionLandingDate 1972-04-21 ⓘ
missionLunarLandingDateUTC 1972-04-21T02:23:35Z ⓘ
missionLunarLiftoffDateUTC 1972-04-24T01:25:47Z ⓘ
missionNumber Apollo 16 ⓘ
missionSequenceInApolloProgram 10th crewed Apollo mission ⓘ
missionSequenceLunarLanding 5th crewed lunar landing ⓘ
operatedBy NASA ⓘ
orbitalCommandModulePilot Thomas K. Mattingly II ⓘ
primaryPurpose geological exploration of lunar highlands ⓘ
regionHemisphere near side of the Moon ⓘ
resultFinding terrain dominated by impact breccias rather than volcanic flows ⓘ
sampleMassReturnedKg 95.8 ⓘ
sampleMassReturnedLb 211 ⓘ
scientificFocus highlands geology ⓘ
impact breccias ⓘ
lunar crustal evolution ⓘ
magnetic and plasma environment ⓘ
regolith mechanics ⓘ
selectionRationale representative of ancient lunar highlands crust ⓘ
to test Descartes region volcanic hypothesis ⓘ
surfaceType brecciated highland crust ⓘ
rugged highlands terrain ⓘ
totalEVAOnSurfaceHours 20.23 ⓘ
usedByMission Apollo 16 ⓘ
visitedByAstronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. ⓘ
John W. Young ⓘ
visitedByLunarModule Orion (Apollo 16 Lunar Module) ⓘ
visitedByLunarRover Apollo 16 Lunar Roving Vehicle ⓘ

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Descartes Highlands → notableFor → Apollo 16 landing site ⓘ