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