Click to open image viewer. The optical device which the astronauts used for navigation while in the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was an alignment optical telescope (AOT). The AOT was a periscope-type ...
A computer simulation depicting the seismic waves emanating from a shallow moonquake occurring on the Lee-Lincoln scarp in the Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon and interacting with the Apollo 17 ...
A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar landscapes at the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 astronauts ...