NASA-UAP-D025, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”

Again, the areas in black are the total area covered, which we obtained from the mission, and the areas in red are the pieces which we missed due to the deletion of the plane change and the day early return. This little piece down here was a blight pass which we had planned with the pan camera. It would have taken place on REV 72 in order to get photographs of descending, which is an area of particular interest to the geology. So you can see that we did lose some data. On the other hand, we did pick up some data that we would not have gotten, and I think overall the effectiveness of the coverage was about 90% of what we had hoped for pre-mission. I really want to express the thanks of the photo team to the flight planners here and also to Ken for his operation of the cameras during the mission. I know that it was very confusing to be continually changing the flight plan, and Ken probably wondered what the hell we were doing with all these on-offs and so on. But really I think we did a very effective job of recovering almost all of the data that we had planned for the mission. May I have the next slide, please? This is a diagram showing what the Apollo 15 coverage was like. This is the planned coverage for the 16 mission, and in the dotted line is the planned coverage for the 17 mission. The only reason I show this is to indicate that the areas where we did lose data, unfortunately, are in the areas that were not covered by 15 and will not be covered by 17, so that the losses, although small, were real. May I have the next slide? Ken, during the film recovery EVA, you reported that the stellar camera glare shield was hung up on the handrail. I'm not 100 percent clear as to exactly what that situation was. This is the stellar camera glare shield, and this is a little…