PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2006-05-01 INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII NOTE = "N/A" END_OBJECT = TEXT END Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Infrared Observations of the 27 September 1996 Lunar Eclipse 1. Introduction This archive contains data acquired during observations of the lunar eclipse of September 27, 1996 by the Spatial Infrared Imaging Telescope (Spirit III) as part of the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX). 2. File Formats The data consists of three FITS image cubes, each with a standard FITS header and an accompanying detached PDS label. Please see msx_leo.cat for detailed information describing the data. All detached label and document files are stream format files, with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line feed character (ASCII 10) at the end of each record. This allows the files to be read by the MacOS, DOS, Unix, and VMS operating systems. All tabular files are described by detached PDS labels, which are label files having the same name as the data files they describe, with the extension .LBL. For example, the file INDEX.TAB is accompanied by the detached label file INDEX.LBL in the same directory. Tabular files are formatted so that they may be read directly into many database management systems (DBMS) or spreadsheet programs on various computers. All fields are separated by commas, and character fields are enclosed in double quotation marks ("). Character fields are left justified, and numeric fields are right justified. The "start byte" and "bytes" values listed in a PDS label do not include the commas between fields or the quotation marks surrounding character fields. The records are of fixed length, and the last two bytes of each record contain the ASCII carriage return and line feed characters. This allows a table to be treated as a fixed length record file on computers that support this file type and as a normal text file on other computers. 3. Archive Contents Files in this archive are organized into a series of subdirectories below the top-level directory. The archive organization and the contents of each directory are described below. Top-level Directory ------------------- AAREADME.TXT The file you are currently reading. VOLDESC.CAT This text file contains a description of the volume contents as a PDS catalog object. It is a required file on PDS archive volumes. CATALOG Directory ----------------- Files in the CATALOG directory are text files containing documentation formatted in PDS object description language. The files contain information about the Midcourse Space Experiment, the Spirit III instrument, the MSX lunar eclipse observation data set, the personnel involved in creating the data archive, and references. See the file CATINFO.TXT for details. DATA Directory -------------- The data files and associated PDS labels are stored in the DATA directory. INDEX Directory --------------- The INDEX directory contains a PDS index file for this archive. An index file is an ASCII table with each record (or line) in the table containing information about a single data product in archive. See the file INDXINFO.TXT for additional details. DOCUMENT Directory ------------------ The DOCUMENT directory contains document files relating to this archive. See DOCINFO.TXT for a description of the files in the DOCUMENT directory. 4. Whom to Contact for Information For questions concerning this volume set, contact: PDS Geosciences Node Washington University 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1169 St. Louis, MO 63130 314-935-5493 Web Site: http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/ E-mail: geosci@wunder.wustl.edu For general information related to the PDS, contact: Planetary Data System, PDS Operator M/S 202-101 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 (818) 354-4321 WWW Site: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/ E-mail: pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov 5. Cognizant Persons This archive volume designed and produced at the PDS Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri by Susan Slavney and Jennifer Ward.