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The Apollo Program 		As in previous lunar landing missions, a contingency sample of lunar surface material was collected during the first EVA period.

The Apollo 14 landing crew devoted the major portion of the first EVA to deployment of the ALSEP instruments. These instruments remained on the Moon and transmitted scientific data to the Manned Space Flight Network on long-term physical and environmental properties of the Moon. These data could be correlated with known Earth data for further knowledge on the origins of the planets and its satellite.

The ALSEP Array C carried on Apollo 14 contained five experiments:

  1. Passive Seismic Expermient (PSE)
  2. Active Seismic Experiment (ASE)
  3. Suprathermal Ion Detector (SIDE)
  4. Cold Cathode Ion Gauge (CCIG)
  5. Charged Particle Lunar Environmental Experiment (CPLEE)

Additional experiments included the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (LRRR) and the Lunar Portable Magnetometer (LPM) which was conducted during the second EVA.

From Apollo 14 Press Kit.