P13B:
Fifty Years of Apollo Science: A Legacy of Lunar Science from Orbit, the Surface, and Long-Lived Surface Experiments I


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Session ID#: 60158

Session Description:
Fifty years since the Apollo missions to the Moon, the orbital observations and measurements, samples, surface measurements, and field observations are being revisited in the context of a variety of newly acquired data. With the new context provided by orbital and sample data, long-held assumptions of the Moon’s surface and environment are being revisited.

This session is open to an array of topics, including insights from modern analyses of Apollo samples, knowledge from modern analyses of ALSEP data, results of contemporary models of lunar formation and evolution, impact cratering, volcanism, history of paleo-magnetic fields, isotopic dating results and issues, the broad implications of regolith formation, space weathering, lunar tectonism, avalanche origins and dynamics, and new interpretations of Apollo landing sites based on recent remote sensing analysis. We will highlight the continued importance of Apollo data in our ongoing study of the Moon as well as all Solar System bodies.

Primary Convener:  Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Harrison H Schmitt, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Engineering Physics, Madison, WI, United States, Ryan N Watkins, Planetary Science Institute, Saint Louis, MO, United States and Jacob E Bleacher, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacob E Bleacher, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Ryan N Watkins, Planetary Science Institute, Saint Louis, MO, United States and Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ryan N Watkins, Planetary Science Institute, Saint Louis, MO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • G - Geodesy
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5475 Tectonics [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5480 Volcanism [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6250 Moon [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Apollo Sample Suite: 50 Years of Solar System Insight (463079)
Ryan A Zeigler, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office, Houston, TX, United States
Composition and Surface Properties of the Apennine Bench Formation: Possible Source of the Apollo 15 KREEP Basalts (368257)
Sarah Valencia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Bradley L Jolliff, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
A New View of Apollo 17 Basaltic Samples (397673)
Clive Robert Neal, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States
Remote Sensing of Volcanic Deposits of the Apollo 17 Landing Site Region (454705)
Lisa R Gaddis1, Kristen A Bennett2, Briony H N Horgan3, Laszlo P Keszthelyi1, Marie Julia McBride4, Lori M Pigue5, Julie Stopar6 and Samuel Lawrence7, (1)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States, (3)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)Purdue University, West Lafayette, PA, United States, (5)Northern Arizona University, Physics & Astronomy, Flagstaff, United States, (6)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, Houston, United States
The Paleoinclination and Paleointensity of the Early Lunar Dynamo (377793)
Claire I O Nichols, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Brenna Loree Getzin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Benjamin P Weiss, MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Ronald Wells, Tranquillity Enterprises, Abington, VA, United States and Harrison H Schmitt, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Engineering Physics, Madison, WI, United States
50 Years of Apollo, Billions of Years of Lunar Impact Glasses (467197)
Nicolle Zellner, Albion College, Physics, Albion, United States
Variations in Local Geology and Regolith Properties at Apollo 17: Correlating Photometric Analyses with Soil Composition and Physical Characteristics (445344)
Timothy Hahn Jr1, Ryan N Watkins2, Anna Schonwald1, Anna Martin3 and Brad L Jolliff4, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (4)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, St. Louis, United States

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