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Data Set Overview
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The TES-TSDR data product contains the raw and calibrated
thermal IR radiance spectra, the visual and thermal bolometric
radiance measurements, and several atmospheric and surface
properties derived from this data. Also included are the
parameters that describe each observations, some downlinked
diagnostic information, and the pointing and positional
information derived from the project's SPICE kernels.
The TES data is divided into 10 tables (OBS, RAD, BOL, GEO,
POS, TLM, IFG, CMP, ATM, LMB). Each table is stored in a
separate file as a PDS TABLE structure, using fixed-length
binary records, with extensions to handle the variable length
spectra. Every record is stored with the spacecraft time, and
related records can be retrieved from each table using time as
a common key. In some tables, up to 6 records can be stored
for a given time, one for each detector. In these cases the
records also include a field named 'detector', which with the
time field, uniquely identifies the record.
The data products on this volume may be reprocessed at the end
of the mission.
Modification History
====================
Version 1 data volumes include MGST_0001 through MGST_0226, released
between June 1999 and October 2001. These volumes contain TES data
collected August 1997 through March 2001.
The version 2 data set release began January 2002; version 2
supersedes version 1. The version 2 release is necessitated by
several improvements that the TES Team has made to the version 1
data set throughout the mapping phase of the MGS mission. The most
significant of these improvements include:
MGST_0100 (Oct 1999) - classification and quality fields added
to the OBS and RAD tables;
MGST_0162 (Oct 2000) - thermal inertia fields added to the BOL
and RAD tables;
MGST_0188 (Apr 2001) - ATM table replaces SRF table and is
filled with atmospheric products;
MGST_0213 (Oct 2001) - geometry and position fields are calculated
using new calibration software (V003a).
Since previously released volumes were not re-released with each
improvement, incompatability problems developed between data volumes
released at different times. The version 2 data release incorporates
all of the above changes and is a uniform collection of all available
TES mapping data.
Data
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Each table is stored in a PDS TABLE structure using
fixed-length binary records sorted time-sequentially. Each
table file is prefixed with an ASCII header that describes the
contents and format of the table, and a pointer that indicates
where the binary table data starts. The description identifies
each column in the table, detailing its name, starting position
(in bytes), size (in bytes), data type, description and scaling
factors if applicable. In some cases the column being
described is a fixed-length array of related, homogeneous
values, in which case the column description also includes the
number of items in the array, and the size of each item.
Four tables (RAD, ATM, CMP, IFG) store variable length data.
These variable length records are stored in a file separate
from the fixed length records, and are addressed from the
fixed-length records with a pointer column. Pointer columns
contain the position of the variable length data, in bytes,
from the start of the file it is in.
Fixed-length records are stored in files with a .DAT extension.
The variable length records that are referenced by an
individual .DAT file are found in a file with the same name,
but with a .VAR extension.
Coordinate System
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Mars areocentric, west positive; Mars body constants obtained
from the IAU-1994 report
Software
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The TES project has produced a software tool that not only
reads the PDS table and variable length records, but is also
capable of joining the related records among multiple tables.
This piece of software is called 'vanilla', and is provided
on this cd.
'Vanilla' is also available via anonymous ftp from
ftp://east.la.asu.edu/pub/software/vanilla/vanilla.tar.Z. The
vanilla program works on UNIX machines with integers in
MSB_INTEGER format and on PC platforms.
Media/Format
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CD-ROM
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