| Description: The discipline_name attribute describes the observing discipline (as opposed to a PDS Discipline Node Name, though the concepts and values are similar). Some of these values are, with respect to the PDS Nodes, inter-disciplinary and should be used when they are applicable in perference to the more restrictive values. |
| Namespace Id: pds | Steward: pds | Class Name: Discipline_Facets | Type: ASCII_Short_String_Collapsed |
| Minimum Value: None | Maximum Value: None | Minimum Characters: 1 | Maximum Characters: 255 |
| Unit of Measure Type: None | Default Unit Id: None | Attribute Concept: None | Conceptual Domain: None |
| Status: Active | Nillable: false | Pattern: None |
| Permissible Value(s) | Value | Value Meaning |
| | Atmospheres | atmospheric observations |
| | Fields | electric and magnetic field data |
| | Flux Measurements | photometry/polarimetry not resulting in images or spectra |
| | Geosciences | observations of the surface or interior of a planet or satellite |
| | Imaging | any non-spectroscopic image, of any dimensionality (color, movies, etc.) |
| | Particles | ions, electrons, and anything not classified as 'dust' |
| | Radio Science | observations of propagating electromagnetic waves |
| | Ring-Moon Systems | other ring or ring-moon system data |
| | Small Bodies | other small body observations, including dust, shape models, etc. |
| | Spectroscopy | light wavelength/wave number spectra of any and all dimensionalities |