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NEAR Mission SPICE GEOMETRY Data Set
========================================================================
Introduction
============
This document provides an overview of this volume of the Near
Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) SPICE Data Archive, including
a complete listing of the volume contents.
This volume contains navigation and ancillary data in the form of
SPICE System kernel files for the NEAR spacecraft during the mission
phase with name: EROS/ORBIT
covering the year and daynumbers (YYYYDDD) 2000336 through 2001043.
See the mission phases table below for a description of the phases of the
mission.
Coverage of this volume and previous volumes containing portions
of the NEAR SPICE data set are given in the table below:
VOLUME ID START TIME(YYDDD) STOP TIME(YYDDD)
----------- ------------------- -------------------
NGEROS_0001 2000011 2000115
NGEROS_0002 2000116 2000220
NGEROS_0003 2000221 2000335
NGEROS_0004 2000336 2001043
The SPICE kernel files contain geometric and much other ancillary
information needed to recover the full value of science instrument
data. In particular SPICE kernels provide spacecraft and planetary
ephemerides, instrument mounting alignments, spacecraft orientation,
spacecraft sequences of events, data needed for certain time
conversions, etc. Data in the SPICE kernel files can be accessed
using the NAIF (Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility)
software, which is necessary to read these files.
The NEAR Science Data Center (SDC) has created this data set for long
term archive by the Planetary Data System (PDS), as specified in the
NEAR Project Archive Generation, Validation and Transfer Plan
(February 1998).
This data set is a part of the NEAR level 1b data set delivery as
described by the NEAR PDS Data Archive Plan. The Plan also describes
the higher level data products, which will become separate PDS data sets.
The February 1998 Plan document is in the DOCUMENT subdirectory of this
data set, in the file PDSARCHIVEPLAN, in text (.TXT) and rich text (.RTF)
formats. The included plan is dated February 1998. It is expected to be
updated with final definitions of higher level products. The revised plan
will be included in later phase data sets.
Volume Format
=============
This volume has been formatted according to the ISO-9660 level 2
Interchange Standard.
This volume does not contain any Extended Attribute Records (XAR).
Thus, some VAX/VMS users may have problems accessing files on this
volume.
File Formats
============
All text documents and other meta information files such as
descriptions, PDS object definitions and detached PDS labels are
stream format files, with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line
feed character (ASCII 10) at the end of the record. This allows
the files to be read by MS-DOS/Windows, Unix, and VMS operating
systems.
The SPICE kernel data files were prepared to be used
under a UNIX environment. Therefore all SPICE text kernel files are
UNIX text files, with a line feed character (ASCII 10) at the end
of the line, and all SPICE binary kernels files are UNIX binary
files in which bit pattern structures for double precision and
integer numbers follow IEEE standard. NAIF software is available to
convert these files for use on other systems.
Volume Contents
===============
Files on this volume are organized into a set of subdirectories
below the top-level directory. The following table shows the
structure and content of these directories. In the table, directory
names are enclosed in square brackets ([]). See the *INFO.TXT files
in each directory for specific information on the files in the
directory.
[TOP-LEVEL-DIRECTORY]
|
|-- AAREADME.TXT The text version of the AAREADME file
|-- VOLDESC.CAT Description of the contents of this volume
|
|--[CATALOG] Directory containing PDS catalog objects
| |
| |-- CATINFO.TXT Description of files in the CATALOG directory
| |-- SPICEDS.CAT Description of SPICE data set
| |-- NEARINSTHOST.CAT Description of the spacecraft
| |-- NEARMISSION.CAT Description of the mission
| |-- PERSON.CAT Description of personnel created this volume
| +-- REF.CAT List of publications mentioned in *.CAT files
|
|--[DATA] Directory containing SPICE data files (kernels.)
| |
| |--[CK] Directory containing CK files
| | |
| | |-- CKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/CK directory
| | |-- *.BC CK files
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for CK files
| | |
| |--[EK] Directory containing EK files
| | |
| | |-- EKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/EK directory
| | |-- *.BPE EK files
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for EK files
| |
| |--[FK] Directory containing FK file(s)
| | |
| | +-- FKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/FK directory
| | |-- EROS_FIXED.TF The Eros body-fixed frame kernel.
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for EK files
| |
| |--[IK] Directory containing IK files
| | |
| | |-- IKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/IK directory
| | |-- *.TI IK files
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for IK files
| |
| |--[LSK] Directory containing LSK files
| | |
| | |-- LSKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/LSK directory
| | |-- *.TLS FK file(s)
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for LSK files
| |
| |--[PCK] Directory containing PCK file(s)
| | |
| | |-- PCKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/PCK directory
| | |-- *.TPC PCK file(s)
| | |-- *.BPC PCK file(s)
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for PCK files
| |
| |--[SCLK] Directory containing SCLK file(s)
| | |
| | |-- SCLKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/SCLK directory
| | |-- *.TSC SCLK file(s)
| | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for SCLK files
| |
| +--[SPK] Directory containing SPK files
| |
| |-- SPKINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA/SPK directory
| |-- *.BSP SPK files
| +-- *.LBL PDS labels for SPK files
|
|--[DOCUMENT] Directory containing volume related documents
| |
| |-- DOCINFO.TXT Description of files in the DOCUMENT directory
| |-- ONLABELS.TXT Description of PDS labels for SPICE kernels
| |-- PDSARCHIVEPLAN.TXT Description of PDS Archive Plan
| +-- LBLINFO.TXT Description of PDS label location on this volume
|
|--[INDEX] Directory containing index files
| |
| |-- INDXINFO.TXT Description of files in the INDEX directory
| |-- INDEX.TAB Index table of SPICE kernels on this volume
| +-- INDEX.LBL PDS label for INDEX.TAB file
|
+--[SOFTWARE]
|
+-- SOFTINFO.TXT Instructions on how to obtain SPICE Software
Mission Phase Parameters (Planned Values; Feb. 2000)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Phase Name Segment Start Year, End Year, Length (days)
(Phase DayOf Year DayOf Year
Abbrv)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
CRUISE1 CRU1 1996051 1997175 491
MATHILDE MATH 1997176 1997178 3
CRUISE2 CRU2 1997179 1998022 209
EARTH ERTH 1998023 1998026 4
CRUISE3 CRU3 1998027 1998356 330
EROS/FLY/BY ERFB 1998357 1998357 1
CRUISE4 CRU4 1998358 2000010 383
EROS/ORBIT EROS 2000011 2001043 399
EROS/SURFACE ERSF 2001044 2001059 16
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Whom to Contact for Information
===============================
PDS Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF),
MAIL STOP 301-125L
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099
818-354-3869
WWW Site: http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov
Electronic mail address: naif@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
NEAR Science Data Center
Howard W. Taylor
The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel MD 20723
Email: Howard.Taylor@jhuapl.edu