MESSENGER RSS Reduced Data Record (RDR, PDS3 Version)

ODE: Mercury, Venus

Mission: MESSENGER

Instrument: MESSENGER Radio Science

PDS Geosciences Node: PDS Source Information

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). The observations are designed to generate high-resolution gravity field models of Mercury.

MESSENGER Radio Science RDR Products:

Type	Description	PDS3 Data Set
OCC	Occultation summary. See documentation in the DOCUMENT directory for more information.	MESS-H-RSS/MLA-5-SDP-V1.0
SHADR	Spherical Harmonics ASCII Data Records. See documentation in the DOCUMENT directory for more information.	MESS-H-RSS/MLA-5-SDP-V1.0
SHBDR	Spherical Harmonics Binary Data Records. See documentation in the DOCUMENT directory for more information.	MESS-H-RSS/MLA-5-SDP-V1.0

More information about the RS RDR experiment can be found in:

• RS RDR data set volumes

• RS Derived Data Archive Volume SIS (TXT)

• Additional RS RDR Documentation