# Voyager 2 Saturn Encounter PLS Bundle # PLS = Plasma Science Experiment ### 1981-08-19 to 1981-09-04 ### Planetary Plasma Interactions Discipline Node of the Planetary Data System ## Introduction This document contains information pertaining to the Voyager 2 PLS Saturn Encounter data. This bundle includes density, temperature and velocity measurements of the electron and ion data collected in Saturn's magnetosheath and magnetosphere. These data cover 1981-08-19T00:00:00.000Z - 1981-09-04T02:51:21.885Z. This bundle is organized into several collections, including: - browse-ele-fbr (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ele-fbr::1.0) - browse-ele-fit (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ele-fit::1.0) - browse-ion-fbr (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-fbr::1.0) - browse-ion-fit (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-fit::1.0) - browse-ion-moments (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-moments::1.0) - browse-ion-solarwind (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-solarwind::1.0) - data-ele-fbr-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ele-fbr-96sec::1.0) - data-ele-fit-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ele-fit-96sec::1.0) - data-ion-fbr-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-fbr-96sec::1.0) - data-ion-fit-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-fit-96sec::1.0) - data-ion-moments-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-moments-96sec::1.0) - data-ion-solarwind-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-solarwind-96sec::1.0) - data-pls-cup (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-pls-cup::1.0) - document (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:document::1.0) PDS4 documentation is in all lblx. There is an lblx label for every product in the archive. ## VG2 PLS Saturn Derived Electron Browse 96s Data Collection - browse-ele-fbr (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ele-fbr) - data-ele-fbr-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ele-fbr-96sec) This collection contains electron browse data from the Plasma science experiment (PLS) on Voyager 2 in the Saturn's magnetosphere. The data contain 96 second averages of the density and temperature measurements with associated browse plots. These data cover 1981-08-25T00:00:42.991Z - 1981-08-27T00:29:30.816Z ## VG2 PLS Saturn Derived Electron Fit 96s Data Collection - browse-ele-fit (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ele-fit) - data-ele-fit-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ele-fit-96sec) This collection contains electron fit data from the Plasma science experiment (PLS) on Voyager 2 in Saturn's magnetosphere. The data contain 96s resolution density and temperature measurements with associated browse plots. These data cover 1981-08-25T00:00:42.991Z - 1981-08-27T00:29:30.816Z. ## VG2 PLS Saturn Derived Ion Fits Browse 96s Data Collection - browse-ion-fbr (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-fbr) - data-ion-fbr-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-fbr-96sec) This collection contains ion browse fit data from the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS) on Voyager 2 near Saturn. The data contain 96 second density, temperature, and velocity components for proton and heavy ions with associated browse plots. These data cover 1981-08-25T07:21:12.002Z - 1981-08-26T01:33:59.937Z ## VG2 PLS Saturn Ion Fit 96s Data Collection - browse-ion-fit (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-fit) - data-ion-fit-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-fit-96sec) This collection contains ion fit data from the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS) on Voyager 2 in Staurn's magnetosphere. The data contain 96 second ion mass, charge, number of ion species, density, thermal speed, and velocity for the first and second ion species with associated browse plots. These data cover 1981-08-25T07:21:12.002Z - 1981-08-26T01:33:59.937Z. ## VG2 PLS Saturn Ion Moment 96s Data Collection - browse-ion-moments (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-moments) - data-ion-moments-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-moments-96sec) This collection contains ion moment data from the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS) Voyager 2 in Saturn's magnetosphere. The data contain 96 second total ion moment density measurements with associated browse plots. These data cover 1981-08-25T07:02:00.000Z - 1981-08-26T03:16:23.000Z ## VG2 PLS Saturn Ion Solar Wind 96s Data Collection - browse-ion-solarwind (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:browse-ion-solarwind::1.0) - data-ion-solarwind-96sec (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-ion-solarwind-96sec::1.0) This collection contains solar wind ion data from the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS) on Voyager 2 in Saturn's magnetosheath and magnetosphere. The data contain 96 second ion density, velocity, speed, thermal speed, and temperature measurements with the associated browse plots. These data cover 1981-08-19T00:00:09.229Z - 1981-09-04T02:51:21.885Z ## VG2 PLS Saturn Faraday Cup Data Collection - data-pls-cup (urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pls-sat:data-pls-cup) This collection contains Voyager 2 information on the PLS detector cups. Each time tag is consecutively repeated 4 times to cover 4 different cup information. These data cover 1981-08-25T07:21:12.002Z - 1981-08-26T01:33:59.937Z This is a PDS4 archive of the following PDS3 data set: - VG2-S-PLS-5-SUMM-ELE-BR-96SEC-V1.0 [DOI:10.17189/1520003](https://doi.org/10.17189/1520003) - VG2-S-PLS-5-SUMM-ELE-FIT-96SEC-V1.0 [DOI:10.17189/1520004](https://doi.org/10.17189/1520004) - VG2-S-PLS-5-SUMM-ION-FBR-96SEC-V1.0 [DOI:10.17189/1520005](https://doi.org/10.17189/1520005) - VG2-S-PLS-5-SUMM-ION-FIT-96SEC-V1.0 [DOI:10.17189/1520006](https://doi.org/10.17189/1520006) - VG2-S-PLS-5-SUMM-ION-MOM-96SEC-V1.0 [DOI:10.17189/1520007](https://doi.org/10.17189/1520007) - VG2-S-PLS-5-SUMM-ION-SOLARWIND-96S-V1.0 [DOI:10.17189/1520008](https://doi.org/10.17189/1520008). The collections were originally archived under PDS3 in the following volumes: - USA_NASA_PDS_VG2_9038 - USA_NASA_PDS_VG2_9039 - USA_NASA_PDS_VG2_9040 - USA_NASA_PDS_VG2_9041 - USA_NASA_PDS_VG2_9042 - VG_1601 Under the PDS3 standard all archives were self contained and could in principle be stored in a single file system (disk, CD-ROM, etc.). PDS4 takes advantage of the network capabilities that allow archives to be distributed. As a result, some of the documents and metadata previously stored in the PDS3 catalog files are no longer maintained locally, but are maintained in a central repository. Those files are referenced by unique PDS logical identifiers that are included in the document collection inventory. ## Errata An errata file has been included in the document collection. Known and additional issues are and will be noted in this file. ## Contacts This bundle was produced for the Planetary Data System (PDS) at the Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI) node. Users are encouraged to contact PDS/PPI if errors or omissions are found either in the data or documentation. Please send comments by e-mail to the PDS/PPI operator: Email: pds_operator@igpp.ucla.edu