NSSDCA ID: PSPG-00474
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)
Time span: 1976-07-20 to 1977-05-30
These data, supplied by the investigation team, are on 16-mm microfilm and consist of descriptions of the commands that were sent to operate the three instruments, and tabulations of raw and reduced data returned. The command data include Mars time for each experiment sequence, the commands sent, predicted data points for each command file that were used to time tag the data when it came back from the instrument, and a summary of the major events of each command sequence. These command data are identified as Biology/C. The tabulation/plot data include instrument response, time-tagged, engineering, and summary plot data. The instrument response data consist of raw return downlink data in octal form, the same data after basic reduction, and the time-tagged data in value point form. The time-tagged data are the primary reduced form of the data. These data are Mars Mission Time (MMT) of the data point, Local Lander Time (LLT), type of measurement, the value of the data point, and diagnostic information about each data point. Engineering data are included after the raw and reduced data. The fourth part of the data contains plots that summarize the data. The reduced data for the biology instrument are GEX chromatogram voltages, GEX nanomoles vs time plots, PR radioactivity vs time, LR counts/min summary, and time-tagged instrument values.
Digital images (scans) of the entire contents of the microfilm are available as data collection PSBI-00003.
A digital version of the Labelled Release portion of this data set is available online at:
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Dr. David R. Williams
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