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              Acronym List                                                    
                                                                              
HOST TERM                                                                     
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 GO (GLL) - Galileo                                                           
 VG2 - Voyager 2                                                              
 IUE - International Ultraviolet Explorer                                     
 OAO - Okayama Astrophysical Observatory                                      
 MSSSO - Mount Stromlo Siding Spring Observatory                              
 ESO - European Southern Observatory                                          
 IRTF - NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility                                    
 GP- Galileo Probe                                                            
 VILSPA - Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station                              
 ANU - Australian National University                                         
 HST - Hubble Space Telescope                                                 
 AAO - Anglo-Australian Observatory                                           
 MSO - Mount Stromlo Observatory                                              
 NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatory                                
 SSO - Siding Spring Observatory                                              
 NIST - National Institute of Science and Technology                          
 UCLA - University of California Los Angeles                                  
 NIH - National Institute of Health                                           
 USGS - United States Geologic Survey                                         
 LASP - Laboratory for Astronomy and Space Physics                            
 ROSAT - Roentgen Satellite                                                   
 IRAM - Instituto de Radio Astronomie Millimeter                              
 NRAO - National Radio Astronomy Observatory                                  
 UKIRT - United Kingdom Infrared Telescope                                    
 CIT - Carnegie Institute of Technology                                       
 NAIF - Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility                         
                                                                              
TECH TERM                                                                     
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 FET - Field Effect Transistor                                                
 CCD - Charge Coupled Device                                                  
 SCLK - Spacecraft Clock                                                      
 EOT - Earth Observation Time                                                 
 OWLT - One Way Light Travel time                                             
 SCET - Spacecraft Event Time                                                 
 OCM - On-Chip Mosaic                                                         
 FOV - field of view                                                          
 ADU - Analog Data Unit                                                       
 SQUID  - Superconducting Quantum Interference Device                         
 WWW - World Wide Web                                                         
 GMT - Greenwich Mean Time                                                    
 RAM - Random Access Memory                                                   
 ROM - Read Only Memory                                                       
 CMOS - Complimentary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor                              
 RIM - Realtime Image count                                                   
 ERT - Earth Received Time                                                    
 SCE - Spacecraft event                                                       
 ITF - Image Transfer Function                                                
 FES - Fine Error Sensor                                                      
 IJW - International Jupiter Watch                                            
 PI - Principal Investigator                                                  
 SPICE - Spacecraft Planetary Instrument C-matrix Event                       
                                                                              
INSTRUMENT                                                                    
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 NIMS - Near Infrared Imaging Spectrometer                                    
 PPR - Photopolarimeter Radiometer                                            
 CASPIR - Cryogenic Array Spectrometer Imager                                 
 SSI - Solid State Imager                                                     
 UVS - Ultraviolet Spectrometer                                               
 EMMI - ESO Multi Mode Instrument                                             
 IRSPEC - Infrared Spectrometer                                               
 SUSI - Superb Seeing Instrument                                              
 NSFCAM - NSF (CCD) Camera                                                    
 OASIS - Okayama Astrophysical System Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy       
 LWP - Long-wavelength Prime                                                  
 SWP - Short-wavelength Prime                                                 
 NTT - New Technology Telescope                                               
 CVF - circular variable filter -                                             
 IRIS - Infrared Imaging System                                               
 SBIG - Santa Barbara Instrument Group                                        
 LWR - Long-wavelength Redundant                                              
 NICMOS - Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph                  
                                                                              
DATA TERM (CODMAC data level)                                                 
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 EDR - Experiment Data Record                                                 
 RDR - Reduced Data Record                                                    
 REDR  - Raw Experiment Data Record                                           
                                                                              
                                                                              
MEDIA                                                                         
 CD-WO - Compact Disk - Write Once                                            
 CDROM - Compact Disk Read Only Memory                                        
                                                                              
                                                                              
FORMAT                                                                        
 FITS - Flexible Image Transport System                                       
 TIFF - Tagged Image File Format                                              
 PDS - Planetary Data System                                                  
VICAR - Video Image Communication And Retrieval                               
                                                                              
                                                                              
SOFTWARE                                                                      
 IDL - Interactive Data Language                                              
 PDS2FITS - PDS to FITS translator                                            
 FIT2PDS - FITS to PDS translator                                             
 MIDAS - Munich Image Data Analysis System                                    
 MIPS - Multimission Image Processing System                                  
 ISIS - Integrated Software for Imaging Spectrometer                          
 NEWSIPS - New Spectral Image Processing System                               
 IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility                                 
 SAOIMAGE - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Image program               
 DCL - Data Control Language                                                  
 GUI - Graphical User Interface