Magellan Data Products Support Office Washington University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Campus Box 1169 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899 (314) 935-5493 mgnso@wunder.wustl.edu
PSPG-00702
Data spans from 1968-11-09 to 1988-07-27
This data set is a collection of selected Earth-based radar data of Venus, the Moon, Mercury, and Mars; Pioneer Venus radar data; airborne radar images of Earth; and line of sight acceleration data derived from tracking the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Viking Orbiter 2. Included are 12.6 cm wavelength Arecibo Venus radar images, 12.6 to 12.9 cm Goldstone Venus radar images and altimetry data together with altimetry, brightness temperature, Fresnel reflectivity and rms slopes derived from the Pioneer Venus Radar Mapper. For the Moon, Haystack 3.8 cm radar images and Arecibo 12.6 and 70 cm radar images are included. Mars data include Goldstone altimetry data acquired between 1971 and 1982 and a raster data set containing radar units that model Goldstone and Arecibo backscatter observations. Mercury data consist of Goldstone altimetry files. The terrestrial data were acquired over the Pisgah lava flows and the Kelso dune field in the Mojave Desert, California, and consist of multiple frequency, multiple incidence angle views of the same regions.
Gravity data obtained through the Pioneer-Venus Orbiter and the Viking Orbiters are also included on the disc.
Data set documentation is provided with references that allow the reader to reconstruct processing histories. The entire data set collection and documentation are available on a CD-ROM. The data set collection is similar to the kinds of data that Magellan produced (89-033B-01C, 89- 033B-01D, 89-033B-01E).
A list of the hardware and software that may be used to read this CD-ROM can be obtained from the PDS Geosciences Discipline Node.