Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP)
General Images - my favorites of the bunch

Probably because it was the first full ALSEP deployment, Apollo 12 was perhaps the best documented of all the lunar missions. Most if not all of these are of LMP Al Bean.


Left - Apollo 14 ALSEP central station, with MET in foreground. To the left of the central station is the Apollo Simple Penetrometer (red flag) and the Active Seismic Experiment mortar that was never fired.
Center - A real beauty of the Apollo 14 ALSEP. The gold of the central station thermal blankets really stands out. L - R are the PSE, the SIDE/CCIG, and the central station. In the foreground, the red flag marks where the ASP was used to anchor the geophone line.
Right - Ed Mitchell walking the Thumper down the geophone line.

Due to a camera jam, Apollo 15 was ome of the least documented of the lunar landing missions. This nice one of the magnetometer was one of the exceptions

Left & Center - The Apollo 16 Far Ultraviolet Camera was a very cool looking instrument! The picture in the middle shows the checklist John Young used to operate it, attached to the camera.
Right - A striking picture of the Apollo 16 PSE. The LM can be seen in the distance, in a small dip in the rolling terrain (lurrain), which was actually a very old, subdued crater the LM had landed in.

Another camera jam on Apollo 17 caused this partial double exposure of the central station

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