PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = FIXED_LENGTH RECORD_BYTES = 80 START_TIME = 1993-11-09T00:00:00.000 STOP_TIME = 1993-11-09T23:59:59.999 DATA_SET_ID = "MGN-V-RSS-1-BSR-V1.0" SPACECRAFT_NAME = MAGELLAN TARGET_NAME = VENUS ^ASCII_DOCUMENT = {"93313RPT.ASC", "93313_A1.ASC", "93313_B1.ASC"} ^EPS_DOCUMENT = {"93313_A2.EPS", "93313_A3.EPS", "93313_A4.EPS", "93313_A5.EPS", "93313_A6.EPS", "93313_A7.EPS", "93313_A8.EPS", "93313_C1.EPS", "93313_D1.EPS", "93313_E1.EPS", "93313_F1.EPS"} ^PS_DOCUMENT = {"93313_A2.PS", "93313_A3.PS", "93313_A4.PS", "93313_A5.PS", "93313_A6.PS", "93313_A7.PS", "93313_A8.PS", "93313_C1.PS", "93313_D1.PS", "93313_E1.PS", "93313_F1.PS"} OBJECT = ASCII_DOCUMENT DOCUMENT_NAME = "EXPERIMENT REPORT, 9 NOV 93 MGN BISTATIC RADAR" PUBLICATION_DATE = 1996-10-15 DOCUMENT_TOPIC_TYPE = "EXPERIMENTER'S NOTEBOOK" INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII DOCUMENT_FORMAT = TEXT FILES = 3 DESCRIPTION = " Memo from R.A. Simpson to Principal Investigator G.H. Pettengill reporting on conduct of and preliminary results from the Magellan bistatic radar experiments of 9 November 1993. The body of the report is in file 93313RPT.ASC. This is an ASCII file with 80-byte FIXED_LENGTH records; each record is delimited by a carriage-return (ASCII 13) line-feed (ASCII 10) pair. A listing of predicted spacecraft position and velocity, viewing angles, and Doppler frequencies is in file 93313_A1.ASC. This is an ASCII file with 120-byte FIXED_LENGTH records; each record is delimited by a carriage-return line-feed pair. The time line for conduct of the bistatic radar observations is in file 93313_B1.ASC. This is an ASCII file with 80-byte FIXED_LENGTH records; each record is delimited by a carriage-return line-feed pair. The ASCII files are supplemented by PostScript files comprising either an EPS_DOCUMENT or a PS_DOCUMENT. There is no file of real-time notes from this set of observations." END_OBJECT = ASCII_DOCUMENT OBJECT = EPS_DOCUMENT DOCUMENT_NAME = "EXPERIMENT REPORT, 9 NOV 93 MGN BSR -- EPS" PUBLICATION_DATE = 1996-10-15 DOCUMENT_TOPIC_TYPE = "EXPERIMENTER'S NOTEBOOK" INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = BINARY DOCUMENT_FORMAT = "ENCAPSULATED POSTSCRIPT" FILES = 12 DESCRIPTION = " Figures scanned and stored in encapsulated PostScript format to supplement the memo from R.A. Simpson to Principal Investigator G.H. Pettengill reporting on conduct of and preliminary results from the Magellan bistatic radar experiments of 9 November 1993. The same figures and scanned documents are also archived as a PS_DOCUMENT. The file with name 93313_Xn.EPS (or 93313_Xn.PS) is page n of Attachment X. 93313_A2.EPS is a map showing the bistatic radar ground track on Venus' surface. 93313_A3.EPS shows angle of incidence as a function of time. 93313_A4.EPS shows echo intrinsic and beam-limited echo bandwidth versus time 93313_A5.EPS shows distance from the spacecraft to the specular point versus time 93313_A6.EPS shows predicted detectability in dB for both horizontally and vertically polarized echo components 93313_A7.EPS shows Doppler shift of the direct and reflected signal as a function of time 93313_A8.EPS shows the differential Doppler between direct and reflected signals and indications of the instrinsic and beam-limited echo widths versus time 93313_C1.EPS shows a purported X-band echo from near 8N latitude; real-time confusion over labeling of SSI output led to an erroneous 'detection' of X-band echoes. 93313_D1.EPS shows a sequence of three S-band echo spectra 93313_E1.EPS shows a single narrow S-band echo from near 25N latitude 93313_F1.EPS shows a real-time sequence of purported X-band echo spectra; no X-band signals were found during later analysis of recorded data. 93313_G1.EPS shows how surface roughness can be estimated from the half-power width of an echo spectrum" END_OBJECT = EPS_DOCUMENT OBJECT = PS_DOCUMENT DOCUMENT_NAME = "EXPERIMENT REPORT, 9 NOV 93 MGN BSR -- PS" PUBLICATION_DATE = 1996-10-15 DOCUMENT_TOPIC_TYPE = "EXPERIMENTER'S NOTEBOOK" INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = BINARY DOCUMENT_FORMAT = "ENCAPSULATED POSTSCRIPT" FILES = 12 DESCRIPTION = " Figures scanned and stored in encapsulated PostScript format to supplement the memo from R.A. Simpson to Principal Investigator G.H. Pettengill reporting on conduct of and preliminary results from the Magellan bistatic radar experiments of 9 November 1993. The same figures and scanned documents are also archived as an EPS_DOCUMENT. The file with name 93313_Xn.PS (or 93313_Xn.EPS) is page n of Attachment X. 93313_A2.PS is a map showing the bistatic radar ground track on Venus' surface. 93313_A3.PS shows angle of incidence as a function of time. 93313_A4.PS shows echo intrinsic and beam-limited echo bandwidth versus time 93313_A5.PS shows distance from the spacecraft to the specular point versus time 93313_A6.PS shows predicted detectability in dB for both horizontally and vertically polarized echo components 93313_A7.PS shows Doppler shift of the direct and reflected signal as a function of time 93313_A8.PS shows the differential Doppler between direct and reflected signals and indications of the instrinsic and beam-limited echo widths versus time 93313_C1.PS shows a purported X-band echo from near 8N latitude; real-time confusion over labeling of SSI output led to an erroneous 'detection' of X-band echoes. 93313_D1.PS shows a sequence of three S-band echo spectra 93313_E1.PS shows a single narrow S-band echo from near 25N latitude 93313_F1.PS shows a real-time sequence of purported X-band echo spectra; no X-band signals were found during later analysis of recorded data. 93313_G1.PS shows how surface roughness can be estimated from the half-power width of an echo spectrum" END_OBJECT = PS_DOCUMENT END