Open AccessTiming problem with the Lunar Module impact data as recorded by the LSPE and corrected near‐surface structure at the Apollo 17 landing site
Author(s) -
Nakamura Yosio
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: planets
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/2011je003972
Subject(s) - apollo , moon landing , geology , geodesy , geology of the moon , seismology , geophysics , astrobiology , physics , zoology , basalt , biology
It has recently been discovered that the Apollo 17 Lunar Module (LM) impact data from the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment (LSPE) had a serious timing problem. Correcting this problem changes the lunar near‐surface seismic velocity structure significantly from the structural models reported in the earlier publications, extending a low‐velocity (V p ∼1 km/s) layer down to a 3 km depth or deeper.