Apollo 16’s alien base line was a joke
The famous line here is humor inside a technical science debrief. The real file is about orbital photography, laser altimetry, particles and fields, magnetometers, and gravity data. Treating the joke as evidence would be bad editing.
Again, the areas in black are the total area covered, which we obtained from the mission, and the areas in red are the pieces which we missed due to the deletion of the plane change and the day early return. This little piece down here was an oblique pass which we had planned with the pan camera. It would have taken place on Rev. 72 in order to get photographs of descending, which is an area of particular interest to the geology. So you can see that we did lose some data. On the other hand, we did pick up some data that we would not have gotten, and I think overall the effectiveness of the coverage was about 90% of what we had hoped for pre-mission. I really want to express...
- Apollo 16 treated a flash as data strong linkPart of the same incident packet or narrow file set.