Artemis II Mission Audio
Artemis II Mission
Planetary Data System (PDS) Archive Bundle

Overview
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This bundle contains the following collections:
  
  data_audio_pcd: Raw audio products recorded on crew Portable Computing Devices (PCDs)
  
  data_audio_loops: Raw audio products recorded on mission voice loops

  data_transcripts_pcd: Derived transcripts from raw PCD audio products 

  data_transcripts_loops: Derived transcripts from raw voice loop audio products 

  annotations: Crew PCD and other annotation document products
  
Data Products and PDS Labels
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Every Mission Audio data product is accompanied by a PDS label in a file with the same name
as the data file, but with the extension ".xml", as PDS labels are written in XML 
(Extended Markup Language). The labels may be viewed in a text editor or web browser, 
preferably one that applies special formatting to XML files to make them more readable. 
The labels may also be read by software that can interpret XML. 

Directory                 Data product            Product type       File name extension
---------                 ------------            -------------      -------------------
data_audio_pcd            raw audio files         raw                .m4a
                                          
data_audio_loops          raw audio files         raw                .m4a
                                          
data_transcripts_pcd      derived transcripts     trn-csv, trn-srt   .csv and .srt
                                          
data_transcripts_loops    derived transcripts     trn-csv, trn-srt   .csv and .srt

annotations               annotation documents    ann                .pdf            

Raw audio files (.m4a) are Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-4 Audio files that 
can be played by commonly available audio playback programs.  

Derived transcript files (.csv and .srt) are comma separated-value and SubRip Subtitle text
file transcriptions generated and edited from raw audio files that can be opened using the 
PDS4 Viewer, any text editor, or a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.

Annotation files (.pdf) are Portable Document Format (PDF) files of crew annotations as 
recorded on their PCDs.

Documentation
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The Artemis II Data User Guide, found in the Mission bundle and document collection, 
describes the contents, format, and structure of the entire Artemis II science data 
archive, including this bundle. It describes the processing level terminology and methods
used to generate the data products. Users are advised to read this document first before 
using the data products.

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This bundle was archived by the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node of the Planetary 
Data System. Questions about this bundle may be directed to pds-img-jpl@jpl.nasa.gov.

Last updated 2026-10-07.