PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = "2017-09-30, Initial release; " OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2017-09-29 NOTE = "The New Horizons Pluto Encounter atmosphere derived products including solar occultation count rate, lower atmosphere temperature and pressure, atmospheric composition, and haze data. " END_OBJECT = TEXT END Table of Contents ================= Introduction Processing Information Volume Format File Formats Volume Contents Whom to Contact for Information Introduction ============ This dataset contains derived data products from the Atmospheres Science Theme Team of the New Horizons project. It includes wavelength-dependent solar atmospheric occultation count rate and opacities, a model of unocculted solar count rate, and atmospheric composition profiles for the species N2, CH4, C2H2, C2H4, and C2H6 based on data taken from the Alice instrument; lower atmospheric temperature and pressure profiles from the REX instrument; and vertical I/F haze profiles from the LORRI instrument. Processing Information ====================== All NH Raw and Calibrated datasets were generated in similar fashion by an automated pipeline, but the higher level datasets were created by a customized process. However, all of the information that follows should be common to all high level NH datasets, with pointers to locations where more information can be found. Refer to the data set catalog (CATALOG/DATASET.CAT) and documentation (DOCUMENT/), for non-standard information specific to each dataset. For more general mission documentation, please see the mission documentation dataset delivered to the PDS along with this release. Volume Format ============= This volume has been formatted according to the PDS Standards Reference 3.8 version. File Formats ============ All text documents and other meta information files such as descriptions, PDS object definitions and detached PDS labels are stream format files, with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line feed character (ASCII 10) at the end of the record. This allows the files to be read by most current operating systems. Data are provided in FITS format with detached PDS labels or in csv format. Volume Contents =============== Files on this volume are organized into a set of sub-directories below the top-level directory. The following table shows the general structure and content of these directories, but does not exhaustively list every file in each directory. See the *INFO.TXT files in each top-level sub-directory for specific information about the files under that directory. In this table, directory names are surrounded by forward slashes (/), and the top-level of the volume is indicated by a single forward slash. / Top level of volume | +-- AAREADME.TXT The AAREADME file | +--/CATALOG/ Directory containing PDS catalog objects. | | | |-- CATINFO.TXT Description of files in the CATALOG directory. | |-- DATASET.CAT Description of this data set | |-- LORRI.CAT Description of the LORRI instrument | |-- ALICE.CAT Description of the ALICE instrument | |-- REX.CAT Description of the REX instrument | |-- NH.CAT Description of the New Horizons mission | |-- NHSC.CAT Description of the New Horizons spacecraft | +-- REF.CAT List of publications relevant to this data set | +--/DATA/ Top-level data directory | | | +-- ALICEOCC/ | | | | | |-- *.FIT ALICE solar atmospheric occultation count rates | | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for the data files in this directory | | | +-- ATMOSCOMP/ | | | | | |-- *.CSV Atmospheric composition profiles for Pluto | | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for the data files in this directory | | | +-- HAZE/ | | | | | |-- *.TAB Vertical I/F haze profiles at selected locations | | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for the data files in this directory | | | +-- REXATMOS/ | | | | | |-- *.TAB Lower atmospheric temperature, pressure profiles | | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for the data files in this directory | | | +-- THERMSCAN/ | | | |-- *.TAB Temperature diametric, winter pole scans, Pluto | +-- *.LBL PDS labels for the data files in this directory | +--/DOCUMENT/ Directory containing dataset-related documents. | | | +-- DOCINFO.TXT Description of files in the DOCUMENT directory. | +-- *.* Documentation files | +--/INDEX/ Directory containing index files. | | | |-- INDXINFO.TXT Description of files in the INDEX directory | |-- INDEX.TAB Index of data files on this volume | |-- INDEX.LBL PDS label for INDEX.TAB file | |-- CHECKSUM.TAB MD5 Checksum file for files on this volume | +-- CHECKSUM.LBL PDS label for CHECKSUM.TAB | +-- VOLDESC.CAT Description of the logical contents of this volume. Whom to Contact for Information =============================== New Horizons ALICE Principal Investigator: S. Alan Stern Southwest Research Institute Department of Space Studies 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 400 Boulder, CO 80302 USA New Horizons REX Principal Investigator: Ivan Linscott David Packard Building - Room 319 350 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-9515 USA New Horizons LORRI Principal Investigator: Harold A Weaver Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Space Exploration Sector 11100 Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, MD 20723-6099 USA New Horizons Science Operations Center (SOC): Tiffany Finley Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Department of Space Operations 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 400 Boulder, CO 80302 USA