Cinder Cones
Title
Cinder Cones
Subject
Description
Audio description of viewing the Littrow area from space by Al Worden. The audio clip on SoundCloud is a short edited excerpt; the full transcription is below.
Creator
NASA
Publisher
NASA
Date
July 31, 1971
Format
Identifier
UUID
50536aeb-0b60-4fdb-9153-6fee0f14c3d0
Transcription
128:12:37 Worden: Houston, Endeavor.
128:12:41 Parker: Go ahead.
128:12:46 Worden: Okay. I'm looking right down on Littrow now, and a very interesting thing. I see the whole area around Littrow, particularly - particularly in the area of Littrow where we've noticed the darker deposits, there are a whole series of small, almost irregular shaped cones, and they have a very distinct dark mantling just around those cones. It looks like a whole field of small cinder cones down there. And they look - well, I say - I say cinder cones, because they're somewhat irregular in shape. They're not all - they're not all round - they're positive features - and they have a very dark halo, which is mostly symmetric, but not always, around them individually.
128:13:41 Parker: Beautiful, Al.
128:12:41 Parker: Go ahead.
128:12:46 Worden: Okay. I'm looking right down on Littrow now, and a very interesting thing. I see the whole area around Littrow, particularly - particularly in the area of Littrow where we've noticed the darker deposits, there are a whole series of small, almost irregular shaped cones, and they have a very distinct dark mantling just around those cones. It looks like a whole field of small cinder cones down there. And they look - well, I say - I say cinder cones, because they're somewhat irregular in shape. They're not all - they're not all round - they're positive features - and they have a very dark halo, which is mostly symmetric, but not always, around them individually.
128:13:41 Parker: Beautiful, Al.
Original Format
Duration
0:08 min.
Timestamp
128:12:37
Collection
Tags
Citation
NASA, “Cinder Cones,” The Apollo 15 Learning Hub, accessed March 31, 2023, https://apollo15hub.org/items/show/3.