MEX-M-MRS-1-2-3-EXT6-3887

Data Set Overview The Mars Express (MEX) Radio Science (MaRS) Data Archive is a timeordered collection of raw and partially processed data collected during the MEX Mission to Mars. For more information on the investigations see the MaRS User Manual MARSUSERMANUAL2004 in the MaRS DOCUMENT/MRS_DOC folder. This is a Occultation measurement covering the time 20170116T03:42:01 to 20170116T04:30:00. This data set was collected during the MEX Extended Mission Phase 6 (EXT6) 2017 to 2018. There were four types of scientific measurements conducted during Extended Mission: Solar Conjunction, Occultation, Bistatic Radar and Gravity where one has to distinguish between gravity measurements conducted on Phobos as well as global gravity measurements on Mars which were conducted around apocenter and target gravity measurements on Mars which were conducted around pericenter over interesting geophysical structures. For more information see INST.CAT or the MaRS User Manual MARSUSERMANUAL2004. For all measurements if not indicated otherwise Transponder 1 onboard the s/c was used. Transponder 2 is designed to be a backup. Mission Phase Definition It should be noted that the Mars Express (MEX) Radio Science (MaRS) group uses mission phases which deviate from the ones defined in the MISSION.CAT files given by ESA in order to keep the keywords and abbreviations consistent for Mars Express, and Rosetta. For Venus Express other definitions are used. Those mission phase abbreviations are also used in the data description field of the dataset_id. MaRS mission name | abbreviation | time span Near Earth Verification | NEV | 20030602 20030731 Cruise 1 | CR1 | 20030801 20031225 Mission Commissioning | truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]