MESSENGER RSS DSN Weather Record (WEA)

WEA – DSN Weather Record

Instrument: MESSENGER Radio Science Experiment

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

For more information about RSS WEA products, see the WEA Product SIS.

The Radio Science Subsystem (RSS) Deep Space Network (DSN) Weather Record (WEA) files are TRK-2-24 Weather files. They give information about the weather conditions at a given Deep Space Communications Complex (DSCC). They are recorded at a one-minute rate and thinned to a sampling interval determined by the user accuracy requirements. There will be one file per weather station at each complex for each delivery interval.

RSS WEA products have the following file names:

MESS_RS_yyyyddd_ddd_tt_WEA.TXT (with detached PDS label)

where:

MESS = mission = MESSENGER

RS = instrument = Radio Science Subsystem

yyyyddd = start date, year and day

ddd = stop date, day only

tt = DSCC number

10 = Goldstone

40 = Canberra

60 = Madrid

WEA = product type = DSN Weather file

In ODE, WEA products have the following product IDs:

MESS_RS_YYYYDDD_DDD_TT_WEA