Data Set Information
DATA_SET_NAME MGN ALTIMETER EXPERIMENT DATA RECORD ON COMPACT DISK
DATA_SET_ID MGN-V-RDRS-2-ALT-EDR-V1.0
NSSDC_DATA_SET_ID
DATA_SET_TERSE_DESCRIPTION
DATA_SET_DESCRIPTION Dataset Overview : This volume contains Magellan ALT-EDR (Altimeter Experiment Data Record) archive products. It also contains documentation files which describe the ALT-EDRs. Each ALT-EDR data directory contains the raw altimeter data returned from one orbit and the ancillary files necessary to understand the data. The ALT-EDR products archived on this volume are the exact products released by the Magellan Project. Supporting documentation and label files conform to the Planetary Data System (PDS) Standards, Version 3.0, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) document JPL D-7669.
DATA_SET_RELEASE_DATE 1994-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
START_TIME 1990-09-15T04:22:14.000Z
STOP_TIME 1992-09-14T02:28:41.000Z
MISSION_NAME MAGELLAN
MISSION_START_DATE 1989-05-04T12:00:00.000Z
MISSION_STOP_DATE 1994-10-12T12:00:00.000Z
TARGET_NAME VENUS
TARGET_TYPE PLANET
INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID MGN
INSTRUMENT_NAME RADAR SYSTEM
INSTRUMENT_ID RDRS
INSTRUMENT_TYPE RADAR
NODE_NAME Geosciences
ARCHIVE_STATUS ARCHIVED
CONFIDENCE_LEVEL_NOTE Confidence Level Overview : The PDS labels on this volume conform to the Data Dictionary distributed with Release 4.1 of the PDS Toolkit. All TEXT, HEADER, SPICE KERNEL and TABLE objects obey GENERIC PDS standards, except that some TABLE objects are not accompanied by sets of COLUMN sub-objects, in which case format information is included in an accompanying DESCRIPTION element. The PDS Catalog files, *.CAT, conform to the PDS 'streamlined' standards introduced in April 1994. All *.DAT files in the data directories were copied directly from ALT-EDR product tapes without change, unless otherwise noted in the ERRATA.TXT file in the ROOT directory. Error messages from the PDS label generation routines have been copied to the ERR.TXT files within the data directories. Most errors are concerned with incorrect SFDU lengths, and the object pointers in the label files should be used in preference to the object lengths recorded in the *.DAT files themselves.
CITATION_DESCRIPTION Ford, P. G., MGN ALTIMETER EXPERIMENT DATA RECORD ON COMPACT DISK, MGN-V-RDRS-2-ALT-EDR-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 1994
ABSTRACT_TEXT This data set contains the Magellan ALT-EDR (Altimeter Experiment Data Record) archive products. It also contains documentation files which describe the ALT-EDRs. Each ALT-EDR data directory contains the raw altimeter data returned from one orbit and the ancillary files necessary to understand the data. The ALT-EDR products archived on this volume are the exact products released by the Magellan Project.
PRODUCER_FULL_NAME DR. PETER G FORD
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