urn:nasa:pds:apollodoc:a16doc:a16c_xrfs_overview 1.0 1.7.0.0 Product_Document Williams, D.R. McLaughlin, S.A. 2017 This document provides an overview of the Apollo 16 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRFS) which was carried on board Command Service Module (CSM) on the Apollo 16 mission. 2017-02-01 1.0 Creation. Extracted text the PDS3 catalog. doi:10.1126/science.175.4020.436. Adler, I., J.I. Trombka, J. Gerard, P. Lowman, R. Schamadebeck, H. Blodgett, E. Eller, L. Yin, R. Lamothe, P. Gorenstein, and P. Bjorkholm, Apollo 15 Geochemical X-Ray Fluorescence Experiment: Preliminary Report, Science, Vol. 175, pp. 436-440, 1972. Adler, I., J. Gerard, J.I. Trombka, R. Schamadebeck, P. Lowman, H. Blodgett, L. Yin, E. Eller, and R. Lamothe, The Apollo 15 X-Ray Fluorescence Experiment, Proc. Lunar Sci Conf. 3rd, Vol 3, pp. 2157-2178, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1972. doi:0.1126/science.177.4045.256 Adler, I., J.I. Trombka, J. Gerard, P. Lowman, R. Schamadebeck, H. Blodgett, E. Eller, L. Yin, R. 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Document provided by the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA, formerly NSSDC) 2017 Overview of the Apollo 16 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRFS) which was carried on board Command Service Module (CSM) on the Apollo 16 mission. 7-Bit ASCII Text version English 1 a16c_xrfs.txt 7-Bit ASCII Text