MESSENGER RSS Observational Data

ODE: Mercury, Venus

Mission: MESSENGER

Instrument: MESSENGER Radio Science

PDS Planetary Plasma Interactions Node: PDS Source Information

PDS3 Data Set ID: MESS-V/H-RSS-1-EDR-RAWDATA-V1.0

PDS4 Bundle: urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-rawDOI: 10.17189/tcy9-gv38

Search MESSENGER Radio Science data in Mercury ODE: Product Search

The MESSENGER Radio Science (RS) experiment consists of radio observations carried out using the MESSENGER spacecraft and Earth-based observing systems of the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN). Observational data are the raw measurements from one or more instruments or the results from processing those measurements. The observations are designed to generate high-resolution gravity field models of Mercury.

MESSENGER Radio Science Observational Data Collections:

Type

Description

Collection ID

DDOR4

Delta-Differential One-way Range Data Record. See page 8 and section 2.1 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.

urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:data-ddor

ODF4

Compressed Version of TNF - typically to one data point per 10 seconds or one data point per 60 seconds.  The ODF contains the most important information (range, Doppler and frequency ramps) needed by the navigation engineers, and investigators interested in determining gravity fields. See page 8 and section 2.1 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.

urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:data-odf

RSR4

Radio Science Receiver Record. See page 8 and section 2.1 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.

urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:data-rsr

TNF4

Tracking and Navigation File (TRK-2-34 data). See page 8 and section 2.1 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.

urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:data-tnf

More information about the RS Raw data can be found in: