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Susie Slavney

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  1. Yes, certainly you can open the file, read all or part of it, and do what you like with the data, display it or plot it or whatever. You can write your own program to do this, or use software such as Matlab or IDL. Again, the label tells you everything you need to know to read the data file. Remember this is binary data, so you won't be able to look at it in a text editor. The free program I mentioned before, ImageJ, can create a plot or a list of data values for a selected area of the image, if that is what you want to do.

  2. Sarah,

     

    As you didn't mention a particular image data set, I'll just tell you in general how to read PDS images. A typical PDS image is stored as a simple binary array. It is described by a PDS label (a set of ASCII-text keyword=value statements), which can be either attached or detached. An attached label is embedded at the beginning of the image file; a detached label is in a separate file with the same name, extension LBL. The label tells you everything you need to know to read the image -- the number of lines, number of pixels (samples) per line, the size and data type of a sample, and map projection information if the image is a map. (PDS deliberately does not rely on any commercial or proprietary formats to archive image data, in order to ensure the long-term viability of the data.) Commercial image processing software packages such as IDL, ENVI, and ISIS can read PDS images. Some free image processing programs can read PDS images by opening them as a "raw" or "raster" file, if you supply the size and data type as specified in the label. One of these that I have tried recently is ImageJ (http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/). Another I have heard recommended is GDAL (http://www.gdal.org). Finally, there is a free download called NASAView (http://pds.nasa.gov/tools/nasa-view.shtml) that was written specifically for PDS images and tables. It will display a PDS image but doesn't have much in the way of analysis tools.

     

    Please let me know if you need more specific information.

     

    Susan Slavney

  3. New Mars Express ASPERA (Energetic Neutral Atoms Analyser) data is now available on the PDS Geosciences Node web site. ASPERA ELS raw and derived data now extend through December 31, 2010, and IMA data through June 30, 2005.

     

    The primary source for all data from the Mars Express mission is the European Space Agency's Planetary Science Archive. By agreement between ESA and NASA, the PDS hosts copies of Mars Express archives for ease of access in the U.S.

  4. New and revised Mars Express MARSIS (Subsurface Sounding Radar Altimeter) data are now available on the PDS Geosciences Node MARSIS web page. All Extended Mission 2 Active Ionospheric Sounder RDR data have been revised (again), and new data have been added. The data set now extends through December 31, 2009. The primary source for all data from the Mars Express mission is the European Space Agency's Planetary Science Archive. By agreement between ESA and NASA, the PDS hosts copies of Mars Express archives for ease of access in the U.S.

  5. EBonacker,

    Here's the LOLA color map as a cpt file, from the LOLA team.

     

    # cpt file created by: makecpt -Cnotmars -T-10/10/1 -Z

    #COLOR_MODEL = HSV

    #

    #-10 330 0.25 0.0625 -9 300 0.12500 0.3750 L

    -9 300 0.12500 0.250 -8 270 0.625 0.50

    -8 270 0.625 0.50 -7 240 0.5000 0.625 L

    -7 240 0.5000 0.625 -6 225 0.5000 0.6750

    -6 225 0.5000 0.6750 -5 215 0.6750 0.8750 L

    -5 215 0.6750 0.8750 -4 214 0.75 0.78125

    -4 214 0.75 0.78125 -3 206 0.517647 0.675 L

    -3 206 0.517647 0.675 -2 175 0.675 0.75

    -2 175 0.675 0.7500 -1 120 0.625 0.625 L

    -1 120 0.625 0.6250 0 105 0.5 0.4375

    0 105 0.5 0.4375 1 90 0.625 0.8125 L

    1 90 0.625 0.8125 2 72 0.8750 0.9375

    2 72 0.8750 0.9375 3 60 0.750 0.8750 L

    3 60 0.750 0.8750 4 48 0.5625 0.6250

    4 48 0.5625 0.6250 5 45 0.75 0.8125 L

    5 45 0.75 0.8125 6 30 0.8750 0.7500

    6 30 0.8750 0.7500 7 12 0.87500 0.8125 L

    7 12 0.87500 0.8125 8 8 0.500 0.9375

    8 8 0.500 0.9375 9 0 0.12500 0.9375 L

    9 0 0.12500 0.9375 10 345 0.0000 1.0000 U

    B 0 0 0

    F 0 0 1

    N 57.3529 0.382022 0.698039

     

    For using cpt files with Matlab, I found the following on the Matlab Central web site:

    http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28943-color-palette-tables-cpt-for-matlab

    Hope this helps you.

    Susie Slavney

  6. MESSENGER Release 6 data are now online. After more than six years, one Earth flyby, two Venus flybys, and three Mercury flybys, MESSENGER entered Mercury's orbit in March 2011. This release includes the first two months' worth of orbital data. MESSENGER instruments include the Gamma Ray and Neutron Spectrometers, X-Ray Spectrometer, Laser Altimeter, the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (UV, visible, and IR spectra), the Magnetometer, the Energetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer, the Mercury Dual Imaging System (wide angle and narrow angle cameras for imaging the surface), the Radio Science experiment, and SPICE kernels. See the PDS Geosciences Node MESSENGER web page for links to these data sets.

  7. New Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data from the CRISM, SHARAD, and Radio Science experiments are now online at the PDS Geosciences Node. This release covers the data acquisition period November 9, 2010, through February 8, 2011. There are no CRISM or SHARAD products after January 15 due to solar conjunction.

  8. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM Team has completed a revision of all previously released TRDR data products. These products have been reprocessed using version 3 of the CRISM processing software. Compared to version 2 TRDRs, these products have had most artifacts corrected and noise reduced by use of a sophisticated filtering process. The version 3 products are now online at the PDS Geosciences Node CRISM page, http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mro/crism.htm.

     

    The previously released TRDR version 2 products will remain available until Dec. 31, 2011.

  9. A new Earth-based Lunar Radar map has been released on the PDS Geosciences Node web site at http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/sband/index.htm. This data set contains dual-polarization backscatter maps of the lunar nearside collected at a wavelength of 12.6 cm (S-band), using the 305 m Radio Telescope at Arecibo to transmit and the NRAO's 105 m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to receive. The data were provided by Bruce Campbell of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and archived by the PDS Geosciences Node.

  10. Mars Exploration Rover Release 28 is now available on the PDS Geosciences Node web site. It includes data acquired on sols 2341 through 2430 by the Opportunity rover. There are no data from Spirit for this release.

     

    New data are included for APXS (raw and derived), Atmospheric Opacity, Mössbauer (raw only), Microscopic Imager (raw and derived), Pancam (raw and derived), and the Rover Motion Counter. No Mini-TES or RAT data are included in this release.

  11. Mars Exploration Rover Release 28 is now available on the PDS Geosciences Node web site. It includes data acquired on sols 2341 through 2430 by the Opportunity rover. There are no data from Spirit for this release.

     

    New data are included for APXS (raw and derived), Atmospheric Opacity, Mössbauer (raw only), Microscopic Imager (raw and derived), Pancam (raw and derived), and the Rover Motion Counter. No Mini-TES or RAT data are included in this release.

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