Tom Stein

A direct message with this question was answered earlier today. Here is the response, made available to others who might have the same question.

Hi jomynn - Would you please post an example that you'd like to see worked through? A specific image, perhaps?

Data and documentation from Mars InSight lander acquired through 30 June 2022 are released. Some data may still be loading into the Notebook; see Data release status for details. Some instrument teams may include additional and/or reprocessed data in their archive deliveries to PDS. Refer to instrument errata and readme documents for details, or contact us with questions. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/ins

Data and documentation from Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sols 300 to 419 are released. Some data may still be loading; see Data release status for details. Some instrument teams may include additional and/or reprocessed data in their archive deliveries to PDS. Refer to instrument errata and readme documents for details, or contact us with questions. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/m20

The Phoenix Analyst's Notebook has been updated with new information and access tools. New features include mission summaries like the mission overview and time tables; faceted data search; science targets with Mars Target Encyclopedia literature references; data set DOIs; optional user accounts; and cart-based data ordering. The previous version of the Phoenix Notebook remains available.

2022-0418-AN-MSL-Navcam-order.mp4 The above video demonstrates how to order data from the Analyst's Notebook using search filters and the cart order system. The transcript of the video is provided below.

Data and documentation from Mars InSight lander acquired through 31 December 2021 are released. Some data may still be loading into the Notebook; see Data release status for details. Some instrument teams may include additional and/or reprocessed data in their archive deliveries to PDS. Refer to instrument errata and readme documents for details, or contact us with questions. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/ins

Data and documentation from Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sols 180 to 299 are released. Some data may still be loading; see Data release status for details. Some instrument teams may include additional and/or reprocessed data in their archive deliveries to PDS. Refer to instrument errata and readme documents for details, or contact us with questions. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/m20

Data and documentation from MSL Curiosity rover sols 3193 tp 3289 are released. Some data may still be processing. See Data release status for details. Some instrument teams may include additional and/or reprocessed data in their archive deliveries to PDS. Refer to instrument errata and readme documents for details, or contact us with questions. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/msl

The Notebook is the only resource for these documents. You might find similar sites with mission logs hosted by various instrument teams.

Great question. The sol documents you refer to are the Mission Manager and Documentarian reports that provide a view into science operations—insight into why and how particular observations were made. The reports have not been edited except for grammar and spelling, and to remove spacecraft and instrument sensitive materials. As you note, the sol documents are not part of the formal science archive. They are provided courtesy of the respective mission science teams who approve the content. Separate from the sol documents are mission and data set documents that are collected from archive bundles and volumes and are designed to promote understanding off the mission, spacecraft, instruments, and data formats. I have updated the online help to include a more detailed description of sol documents, highlighting the fact that they are not part of the formal archive.

Data and documentation from MSL Curiosity rover sols 3069 to 3192 are released. Some data may still be processing. See Data release status for details. Some instrument teams may include additional and/or reprocessed data in their archive deliveries to PDS. Refer to instrument errata and readme documents for details, or contact us with questions. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/msl

The Image viewer tool has an updated drawing library. Users should notice improvement in text annotation quality and general responsiveness. See Image viewer for more about the tool.

The Mars 2020 Analyst's Notebook for Perseverance Rover is released in beta version and is available to the public. The Notebook includes data and documentation from PDS releases 1 and 2, containing data from sols 0 to 179. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/m20 Known limitations for the beta version are described in the online help.

Hi Neal - Your question makes perfect sense. In the data search, you can enter a sequence ID as a search criterion. The available sequences will appear as you type, so by entering "15298", for example, the selection box provides the correct sequence ID "mcam15298". Search results will appear on the right side where you can add the found items to your cart from the menu. See the attached image as an example. You can apply other search criteria as you wish. The default results for MastCam will be DRCX products. If you are looking for XXXX products, try this trick: select "All products" from the "Results view" option at the top of the filter list, and then enter "*XXXX" in the "ID" option at the bottom of the filters. You can further restrict the selection to omit thumbnails by selecting "C" Mastcam data type under the "Type" filter option. Tom