2007 MARS PHOENIX ROBOTIC ARM REDUCED DATA RECORDS

Introduction
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The Phoenix Robotic Arm Derived Data consists of Robotic Arm (RA) Scoop Tip 
position data and components of force exerted by the RA. Data are included 
for both the spacecraft RA and the Payload Interoperability Testbed RA. The
RDRs are derived from raw RA telemetry data that are not archived in PDS due
to ITAR restrictions.

File Formats
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The RA RDR archive consists of data from the Phoenix Lander RA on Mars and 
from the Payload Interoperability Testbed RA at the University of Arizona. 
Both categories of data consist of comma-separated-value (CSV) text files 
with position, time, and force data from the RA telemetry. The test data 
include JPEG image files that show RA operation and that correspond to the 
CSV data files. 

Spacecraft data files are named for the sol (Mars day) on which they were
acquired, eg. "SOL006.CSV". The first day of Phoenix landed operations was 
sol 1. If there were several observations on the same sol, the data files
are named SOLnnnA.CSV, SOLnnnB.CSV, etc. Test data files are named for the
characteristic of the test being conducted, e.g. "PIT_TEST_SCRAPING.CSV".

Each data file is described by a PDS label in a separate file with the
same name, extension ".XML", in the same directory as the data file.
The labels contain identification and observation parameters
associated with the data files.
 
Contacts
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For questions concerning these data products and documentation, contact:

          PDS Geosciences Node
          Washington University
          Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
          1 Brookings Drive
          St. Louis, MO 63130

          Web Site:  http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu
          Electronic mail address:  geosci@wunder.wustl.edu