PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3                                                         
                                                                              
RECORD_TYPE  = STREAM                                                         
INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "ROSETTA-ORBITER"                                      
                                                                              
OBJECT     = TEXT                                                             
 PUBLICATION_DATE   = 2008-02-15                                              
 INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII                                                   
 NOTE               = "ASCII description of contents of this RPC-IES Archive" 
END_OBJECT = TEXT                                                             
                                                                              
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Acronyms:                                                                     
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RPC     Rosetta Plasma Consortium                                             
                                                                              
Overview:                                                                     
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This data set contains instrument raw data obtained by the Ion and Electron   
Sensor (RPC-IES) onboard the Rosetta spacecraft from the complete             
commissioning phase (CVP) between March and October 2004. In this data set    
only data in units of electron and ion counts can be found.                   
                                                                              
                                                                              
CVP RPC-IES Data Archive                                                      
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a) S/C DATA                                                                   
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CODMAC Level/Type             Data Type      Data Content                     
                                                                              
  2 / EDITED Data             table          Ion and electron counts          
                                                                              
                                                                              
The data can be found in the DATA directory.                           
                                                                              
b) Supporting files                                                           
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Supporting files for the archive user include PDS descriptions, documents,    
supplemental information, and searchable indices. These have been             
organized into three directories one level below the root: CATALOG,           
DOCUMENT, EXTRAS, and INDEX.                                                  
                                                                              
                                                                              
                             Structure of the volume                          
                                                                              
AAREADME.TXT  (PDS required introduction to the data set)                     
                                                                              
VOLDESC.CAT   (PDS required volume description of the data only)              
                                                                              
../CATALOG/CATINFO.TXT (list of catalog files)                                
                 *.CAT (Mission, spacecraft, instrument, data, targets,       
                        references, personnel)                                
                                                                              
../DOCUMENT/DOCINFO.TXT (list of documents)                                   
           /IES_EAICD/* (IES EAICD)                                           
                                                                              
../EXTRAS/EXTRINFO.TXT (Description of the contents of EXTRAS)                
          ENERGY_STEPS.TAB (Energy mapping step table                         
          ENERGY_STEPS.LBL (PDS LABEL file)                                   
          ELEVATION_STEPS.TAB (Elevation mapping step table)                  
          ELEVATION_STEPS.LBL (PDS LABEL file)                                
                                                                              
../DATA/yyyy/mm/dd/*.TAB (Ion and electron data as ASCII tables)              
                   *.LBL (PDS LABELS for the IES data files)                  
                                                                              
../INDEX/INDXINFO.TXT (Description of the contents of the index directory)    
         INDEX.TAB    (Index of the data set in tabular format)               
         INDEX.LBL    (PDS LABEL file for INDEX.TAB)                          
                                                                              
Contact:                                                                      
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Data generated by:                                                            
                                                                              
Brad Trantham                                                                 
Space Science and Engineering Division                                        
Southwest Research Institute                                                  
6220 Culebra Road                                                             
San Antonio, TX 78230                                                         
United States                                                                 
                                                                              
btrantham@swri.org                                                            
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
RPC-IES PI:                                                                   
                                                                              
Dr. Jim Burch                                                                 
Space Science and Engineering Division                                        
Southwest Research Institute                                                  
6220 Culebra Road                                                             
San Antonio, TX 78230                                                         
United States                                                                 
                                                                              
jburch@swri.org