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To: VxH

+225 degree Fahrenheit during the day is more like it. But you are correct there is a huge difference when there is no atmosphere. All radiated heat makes it to the surface.


149 posted on 01/15/2007 1:24:48 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* ?I love you guys?)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
[+225 degree Fahrenheit during the day is more like it.]
 
You might be right, the wording of the report isn't exactly clear, but a closer reading leads me to believe that the +1360 F may be referring to the electronics temperature inside a device on the lunar surface.  See below. 
 
Still, the measured 1470F degree  fluctuation is clearly due to solar radiation.   
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Apollo+14+1360&btnG=Google+Search
 
After lunar module ascent, the charged particle lunar environment experiment was commanded on at 142 hours 7 minutes and the dust cover was removed about 15 hours and 20 minutes later. Operating temperatures are nominal. The maximum temperature during lunar day is 1360 F and the minimum temperature during lunar night is minus 110 F. The instrument's operational heater cycled on automatically when the electronics temperature reached 320 F at lunar sunset, and was commanded on in the forced-on mode at 140 F, as planned.
 
 
150 posted on 01/15/2007 3:01:41 AM PST by VxH (There are those who declare the impossible - and those who do the impossible.)
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