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