Stardust Collector Plate Geometry Data

Status: In Peer Review

This volume contains the data describing the geometry and orientations of the spacecraft and the dust collector plate during the two interstellar dust collecting phases and the encounter with comet Wild 2. The data were downloaded from the NAIF website on 5 June 2006.

The original tar files can be downloaded here.

• ZIP file of the dataset, (6.6 MB) for download

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/ subdirectory. The directory contents are described by the catinfo.txt file.

Note that the catalog files are preliminary and subject to frequent editing until a peer review has been scheduled for these data.

• Stardust mission file
• Stardust spacecraft instrument host file
• Sample Return Container instrument file
• Data Set file
  
• 81P/Wild 2 target file
• Interstellar_particles target file
• PDS Personnel file
• References 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/ subdirectory. The directory contents are described by the docinfo.txt file.

Additional explanatory material about the Stardust mission and the SRC have been provided in several separate documents:

• The Mission Plan document describes the mission in general. (PDS label).
• The Mission Plan Supplement A document is a post-launch update to the mission plan document. (PDS label).
• The Mission Plan Supplement B document is a post-Annefrank update to the mission plan document (PDS label).
• SRC and aerogel collector diagram (PDS Label).
• SRC geometry during ISP collection including shadow of the backshell. (PDS Label).
• Descent diagram, showing events involved in the SRC return to Earth (PDS Label).
• Oblique View and Full View of aerogel collector grid (PDS Label).
• Profile of the aerogel collector during the first orbit ISP collection (PDS Label).
• Orbit 1, Orbit 2, Orbit 3 diagrams, showing events that occurred during the three orbits of the mission (PDS Label).
• Stardust in encounter configuration (PDS Label).
• Side views of Stardust in the Comet encounter configuration and the ISP collection configuration (PDS Label).
• Cutaway view of the SRC (PDS Label).

Data Files

There are three data files available, one covering each of the two Interstellar particle collection periods and one for the Wild 2 encounter.

• Collector geometry for ISP phase 1 (PDS label)
• Collector geometry for ISP phase 2 (PDS label)
• Collector geometry for Wild 2 encounter (PDS label)

Index Files

The index/ directory contains the required PDS index into the files in the data/ directory.

• indxinfo.txt describes the directory contents.
• index.tab is a CSV table meeting the PDS indexing requirements. (PDS label)