PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = FIXED_LENGTH RECORD_BYTES = 80 SPACECRAFT_NAME = "CASSINI ORBITER" TARGET_NAME = "DUST" OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2011-036 NOTE = "This is the aareadme.txt introductory file for the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer data submission #1." END_OBJECT = TEXT END VOLUME COCDA_0058 Cassini Orbiter Cosmic Dust Analyzer CDA Standard Products Archive Entire Mission Small Body Node of the Planetary Data System Introduction =================== This volume contains the Cassini Orbiter COSMIC DUST ANALYSER (CDA) data products from the entire mission, submitted to the Planetary Data System (PDS). As of the delivery date, the data set contains data from the Interplanetary Cruise phase,covering the time range 2010-001T00:00:00 and 2010-090T23:59:59. New data will be added on subsequent volumes as they become available. This volume also contains documentation describing the CDA instrument. Supporting documents and label files for the CDA data products conform to the Planetary Data System (PDS) Standards Version 3.6. Every effort has been made to ensure that the data and documentation are of the best possible quality. However, all users are encouraged to verify the "correctness" of the data prior to submitting any publications or other work based on these data. Users of these data are encouraged to acknowledge both the PDS and the principal investigators of the instruments whose data are used in analysis in all publications. The archive producers would like to thank C. Neese and M. Sykes from the Small Bodies Node of the Planetary Data System for their help during the archiving process. Disk Format =================== The disk has been formatted so that a variety of computer systems (e.g. IBM PC, MACINTOSH, SUN) may access the data. Specifically, it is formatted according to the UDF_ISO9660_BRIDGE (Universal Disk Format) standard. File Formats =================== All document files and detached label files contain 80-byte fixed-length records, with a carriage return character (ASCII 13) in the 79th byte and a line feed character (ASCII 10) in the 80th byte. This allows the files to be read by the MacOS, DOS, Unix, and VMS operating systems. All tabular files are also described by PDS labels, either embedded at the beginning of the file or detached. If detached, the PDS label file has the same name as the data file it describes, with the extension .LBL; for example, the file CDAEVENTS.TAB is accompanied by the detached label file CDAEVENTS.LBL in the same directory. CD-ROM content =================== The files on this CD-ROM are organized in one top-level directory with several subdirectories. The following table shows the structure and content of these directories. In the table, directory names are enclosed in square brackets ([]), upper-case letters indicate an actual directory or file name, and lower-case letters indicate the general form of a set of directory or file names. FILE CONTENTS Top-level directory | |- AAREADME.TXT The File you are reading | |- ERRATA.TXT Description of known anomalies and errors | present on this volume. | |- VOLDESC.CAT A description of the contents of this volume | [CATALOG] A directory containing the catalog | | files with information about the | | CDA dataset, instrument, and mission. | | | |-MISSION.CAT Mission catalog file | |-INSTHOST.CAT Instrument host (spacecraft) catalog file | |-CDAINST.CAT CDA instrument catalog file | |-CDADS.CAT CDA data set catalog file | |-CDAREFS.CAT Reference list catalog file | |-PROJREF.CAT Project reference list catalog file | |-DUST.CAT Target catalog file | |-CATINFO.TXT Description of files in the CATALOG directory | [INDEX] A directory containing index files for this volume | | | |-INDEX.TAB Index of the contents of this volume | |-INDEX.LBL Detached label for index | |-CUMINDEX.TAB Index of all volumes published to date | |-CUMINDEX.LBL Detached label for cumulative index | |-INDXINFO.TXT Description of files in the INDEX directory | |[DATA] Directory containing the data products | | | |-DATAINFO.TXT Description of files in the DATA directory | | |-CDAAREA.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA sensitive area data. | | | |-CDAAREA.TAB PDS table object. Sensitive area data. | | | |-CDACOUNTER.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA counter state data. | |-CDACOUNTER.TAB PDS table object. Counter state data. | | | |-CDAEVENT.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA event data. | |-CDAEVENT.TAB PDS table object. Event evaluation data. | | | |-CDAPOINTING.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA pointing data. | |-CDAPOINTING.TAB PDS table object. Pointing data. | | | |-CDASETTINGS.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA settings data. | |-CDASETTINGS.TAB PDS table object. Settings data. | | | |-CDASPECTRA.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA TOF mass spectra data. | |-CDASPECTRA.TAB PDS table object. TOF mass spectra data. | | | |-CDASTAT.LBL PDS label object. Description of | | CDA status data. | |-CDASTAT.TAB PDS table object. CDA status data. | | | |-[QISIGNALS] Directory containing individual | | | impact signals | | | XXXXXXXX represents the id of each signal. | | |-QI_XXXXXXXX.LBL PDS label object. Description | | | of QI signal data. | | |-QI_XXXXXXXX.TAB PDS table object. QI signal data. | | | | |-[QTSIGNALS] Directory containing individual | | | impact signals | | |-QT_XXXXXXXX.LBL PDS label object. Description | | | of QT signal data. | | |-QT_XXXXXXXX.TAB PDS table object. QT signal data. | | | | |-[QCSIGNALS] Directory containing individual | | | impact signals | | |-QC_XXXXXXXX.LBL PDS label object. Description | | | of QC signal data. | | |-QC_XXXXXXXX.TAB PDS table object. QC signal data. | | | | |-[QPSIGNALS] Directory containing individual | | | impact signals | | |-QP_XXXXXXXX.LBL PDS label object. Description | | | of QP signal data. | | |-QP_XXXXXXXX.TAB PDS table object. QP signal data. | | | | |-[MPSIGNALS] Directory containing individual | | | impact signals | | |-MP_XXXXXXXX.LBL PDS label object. Description | | of MP signal data. | | |-MP_XXXXXXXX.TAB PDS table object. MP signal data. | | |-[DOCUMENT] Directory containing supporting documents | |-Software Interface Specification (SIS) |-DOCINFO.TXT Description of files in the DOCUMENT directory This volume contains one data set with the following DATA_SET_ID: CO-D-CDA-3/4/5-DUST-V1.0 Contact Information =================== The medium and supporting files required for delivery were prepared by: Nicolas Altobelli, NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena CA 91101 Mail: nicolas.altobelli@jpl.nasa.gov Tel: (+1) 818 393 0837 Sascha Kempf, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Postfach 103980 Heidelberg 69029, Germany Mail: Sascha.kempf@mpi-hd.mpg.de Tel: (+49) 6221 516 247 Contact persons at PDS-SBN: Mark V. Sykes, Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Ft. Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719-2395 Mail: sykes@psi.edu Tel: (+1) 520 622 6300 Carol Neese, Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Ft. Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719-2395 Mail: neese@psi.edu For further information about the individual data products, please consult the PDS labels and catalog files specific to the dataset.