A broad segment of the industrial and academic communities, as well as DOE, DOD, and other NASA centers, have been solicited to propose the optimum instrument payload for the first lunar rover, should the initiative gain new impetus. Guidelines propose that all portions of the payload be small, simple, cheap, and quick. Priorities are schedule, cost, risk, and performance. If there is no free return mission operations requirement, then the Apollo 17 site in the valley of Taurus Littrow should also be considered. The choices of either of these previous Apollo landing sites for the FLO would avail more time for resource delineation and for the collection of scientific data by the rover.
Considerable overlap is projected for both rover activities and resource delineation.
Analytical requirements on the moon for both purposes can be satisfied by a modest instrument payload that can be accommodated within the given weight and support constraints. In order to gain the maximum scientific information from the rocks and regolith encountered by the rover, samples must be collected, packaged, stored, and eventually delivered to terrestrial laboratories for intense scrutiny. Electron Precipitation Studies E.A. Bering, III, Ph.D., and J.R. Benbrook, Ph.D., Department of Physics. This camera has been designed for use in auroral studies and other applications where X-ray imaging is needed. The X-rays are collimated by a 1 cm2 entrance hole, two inches above the scintillator, to form a pinhole camera.