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  NOTE             = "AAREADME file for the Apollo 16 Lunar Self-Recording    
    Penetrometer (LSRP) Soil Mechanics Data Set"                              
  PUBLICATION_DATE = 2011-10-01                                               
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Introduction                                                                  
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  This volume contains tables of raw readings and reduced data from ten       
  runs on 22 April 1972 of the Lunar Self-Recording Penetrometer (LSRP)       
  on the surface of the Moon for the Apollo 16 Soil Mechanics experiment.     
  Supporting documentation includes digitized scans in JPEG and PDF           
  format of the original LSRP soil mechanics dataset on microfilm, videos     
  and transcripts of the LSRP as it was operated on the Moon, diagrams        
  and maps of the experiment areas, and photography of Apollo 16 Stations     
  4 and 10 where the experiment was performed.                                
                                                                              
                                                                              
Volume Format                                                                 
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  This single-volume dataset has been formatted according to the ISO-9660     
  level 2 Interchange Standard for directories and file names as described    
  in Version 3.7 of the PDS Standards Reference.                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
File Formats                                                                  
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  All text documents and other meta information files such as descriptions,   
  PDS object definitions, and detached PDS labels are stream format files,    
  with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line feed character (ASCII 10) at   
  the end of the record.  This allows the files to be read by various         
  operating systems.                                                          
                                                                              
                                                                              
Volume Contents                                                               
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  Files on this volume are organized into a set of subdirectories below the   
  top-level directory.  The following list shows the structure and content.   
  Directory names are enclosed in square brackets ([ ]).  See the *INFO.TXT   
  files in some directories for specific information on the files in that     
  directory.                                                                  
                                                                              
  [TOP-LEVEL-DIRECTORY]                                                       
  |                                                                           
  |-- AAREADME.TXT     This file                                              
  |                                                                           
  |-- VOLDESC.CAT      Description of logical contents of this volume         
  |                                                                           
  |--[CATALOG]         Directory containing PDS catalog files providing       
  |                    overviews of the mission, instrument, and dataset      
  |                                                                           
  |--[DATA]            Directory containing the data products                 
  |  |                                                                        
  |  |-- A16_SMSS_*.TAB  Penetrometer drum data charts as ASCII tables        
  |  |-- A16_SMSS_*.TXT  Descriptive header records for each ASCII table      
  |  `-- A16_SMSS_*.LBL  PDS label for each table and header pair             
  |                                                                           
  |--[DOCUMENT]        Directory containing documents most useful for         
  |                    understanding this dataset (scans of the original      
  |                    microfilm LSRP Soil Mech dataset as JPEG and PDF,      
  |                    the LSRP Soil Mech Report, videos, transcripts, and    
  |                    photography acquired during the experiment)            
  |                                                                           
  |--[EXTRAS]          Directory containing videos from DOCUMENT formatted    
  |                    as Real Media files (better resolution for several     
  |                    movies) and tables from DATA formatted as Excel        
  |                    spreadsheets                                           
  |                                                                           
  `--[INDEX]           Directory containing PDS index and MD5 checksum files  
                                                                              
                                                                              
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