Starship Asterisk*

wilddouglascounty wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:25 pm If you expand the photo, you'll see a station set up a ways away from Antares landing site, located in the upper left of the photo, and the tracks that lead over to it all. Is this a seismic station and other instrumentation set up to operate after they left, set up far enough away to avoid being damaged by the exhaust of the lunar launch of the Antares module as it left the moon? Wondering what all the instrumentation that was set up over there doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Surface_Experiments_Package wrote:
Background
The instrumentation and experiments that would comprise ALSEP were decided in February 1966. Specifically, the experiments, institutions responsible, and principal investigators and coinvestigators were:[1]

• Passive Lunar Seismic Experiment: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frank Press; Columbia University, George Sutton; Georgia Tech, Robert Hostetler
• Lunar Tri-axis Magnetometer: Ames Research Center, C. P. Sonett; Marshall Space Flight Center, Jerry Modisette.
• Medium-Energy Solar Wind: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, C. W. Snyder and M. M. Neugebauer.
• Suprathermal Ion Detection: Rice University, J. W. Freeman, Jr.; Marshall Space Flight Center, Curt Michel.
• Lunar Heat Flow Management: Columbia University, M. Langseth; Yale University, S. Clark.
• Low-Energy Solar Wind: Rice University, B. J. O'Brien.
• Active Lunar Seismic Experiment:[1][2] Stanford University, R. L. Kovach; United States Geological Survey, J. S. Watkins.
• SNAP-27 isotopic power system:[3] Sandia National Laboratories, Jim Leonard

Avalon wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:15 am Items seem to be haphazardly lying around the landing site. Is their placement intentional?