NSSDCA ID: PSSB-00131
Availability: Archived at NSSDC, accessible from elsewhere
Time span: 0006-01-19 to 0007-01-01
This volume contains Calibrated data taken by New Horizons Student Dust Counter instrument during the LAUNCH mission phase. The SDC instrument was commissioned on March 2, 2006 and stepped through a checkout of all instrument functionality successfully. Following these activities, SDC collected science data intermittently throughout the first year of the mission.
Note that some SDC data files have the same stop and start time and a zero exposure time. The reason for this is that the start and stop time for SDC data files are the event times for the first and last events in the files, so for files that contain a single event, these two values are identical. Every observation provided in this volume was taken as a part of a particular sequence.
The observations in this volume are stored in data files using standard Flexible Image Transport Sytem (FITS) format. Each FITS file has a corresponding detached PDS label file, named according to a common convention. The FITS files have image and/or table extensions; see the PDS label plus the DOCUMENT files for a description of these extensions and their contents.
This is PDS data set NH-X-SDC-3-LAUNCH-V1.0 contained on volume NHLASD_2001 and is available online at
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/holdings/nh-x-sdc-3-launch-v1.0/
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Dr. David R. Williams
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Alan Stern | Data Provider | NASA Headquarters | alan.stern@nasa.gov |
Dr. Joseph Peterson | General Contact | Southwest Research Institute | joe@boulder.swri.edu |