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Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer Operations

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1969

Alan Bean19 November 1969

Oceanus Procellarum · Science / Astronomy

Helps deploy the Apollo 12 surface experiment package containing the Solar Wind Spectrometer, which measures the energy, density and direction of arriving solar-wind particles.

Names involved

Alan Bean

Provenance

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