Rosetta: Thermal-Vacuum Test Raw Data from the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO)

Status: In Lien Resolution

This data set contains raw spectroscopic, continuum, and engineering data, in the form of table files, for the ground thermal-vacuum tests performed at NASA/JPL for the MIRO instrument of the Rosetta mission. These data were collected from 21 May 2001 through 29 June 2001.

The entire data set including catalog, document, index, and supporting files can be downloaded here:

• ro-cal-miro-2-grnd-thermal-vac-v1.0.tgz (299 MB tgz file) [MD5 checksum for the tgz file]

An overview of the volume contents is provided in the aareadme.txt file.

Catalog Files

Catalog files contain the overview information and parameters used in loading the PDS central catalog, specifically, or for developing other interfaces to the data outside of PDS. The information they contain, particularly in their descriptive text fields, should be clear, complete, and understandable to a research user who is not necessarily a mission or instrument specialist.

These files are located in the catalog/ directory. The directory contents are described by the catinfo.txt file.

• Rosetta mission file
• Rosetta Spacecraft instrument host file
• MIRO instrument file
• Data Set description file
• The target catalog file contains very brief definitions of the various TARGET_NAME values found in the PDS labels for the data:
  • Target file
• Software file
• References file
• Personnel file

Documentation Files

In addition to the small text files located throughout the volume to describe directory contents, some specific documents are provided to assist with understanding the data and processing involved. These files are located in the document/ directory. The directory contents are described by the docinfo.txt file.

• MIRO Thermal Vacuum Plan: (ASCII, PDF, PDS label).
• MIRO Thermal Vacuum Procedure: (ASCII, PDF, PDS label).
• MIRO Calibration Procedure for Thermal-Vacuum Test: (ASCII, PDF, PDS label).
• MIRO Thermal-Vacuum Logbooks:
  • From 2001-05-15T18:30 to 2001-06-02T14:20 (ASCII, Excel, PDS label).
  • From 2001-06-02T17:37 to 2001-06-20T16:54 (ASCII, Excel, PDS label).
  • From 2001-06-20T17:30 to 2001-07-06T13:46 (ASCII, Excel, PDS label).
• MIRO Thermal-Vacuum Housekeeping Data:
  • From 2001-05-21T09:35 to 2001-06-19T07:13 (ASCII, Excel, PDS label).
  • From 2001-06-19T07:25 to 2001-06-21T11:38 (ASCII, Excel, PDS label).
• MIRO Archive Interface Control Document: (ASCII, PDF, PDS label).
• MIRO Experiment User Manual: (ASCII, PDF, PDS label).
• A Fortran-77 program that lists selected portions of the MIRO data files: (Program and PDS label).

  Data Files

  The data/ directory contains raw spectroscopic, continuum, and engineering data in the form of binary table files (*.dat). Each data file has a detached PDS label (*.lbl). The data are grouped into these subdirectories:

  • continuum
  • engineering
  • spectroscopic

  The label/ directory contains ASCII format files which define the structures of the different types of binary tables in the data/ subdirectories. The directory contents are described by the labinfo.txt file.

  • cont_level_2_format.fmt (continuum table format)
  • eng_level_2_format.fmt (engineering table format)
  • cts_level_2_format.fmt (spectroscopic table format)
  The format of the data tables also is described in the MIRO Archive Interface Control Document.

  Index Files

  The index/ directory contains the required PDS index into the files in the data directory, as well as the checksum file.

  • indxinfo.txt describes the directory contents.
  • index.tab is a comma-separated variable (CSV) table, required by PDS, that identifies the location of each data file on all volumes of this data set (PDS label).
  • checksum.tab is flat table of MD5 checksums for each file in the official archive volume except for itself and its PDS label.

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