APXS Data Set Documents for Spirit

These documents are designed to promote understanding of the mission, spacecraft, instruments, and data formats. For documentation detailing day-to-day mission operations refer to the Sol Summaries.

Archive Documentation
	apxs_edr_sis.htm	HyperText version of the "Mars Exploration Rover Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer Experiment Data Record SIS". This document is a software interface specification describing the format of the MER APXS EDRs.
	apxs_edr_sis.pdf	Adobe PDF version of the APXS EDR SIS
	apxs_edr_sis.lbl	PDS label describing the apxs_edr_sis.htm and apxs_edr_sis.pdf files.
	apxs_rdr_sis.htm	HyperText version of the "Mars Exploration Rover Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer Reduced Data Record SIS". This document is a software interface specification describing the format of the MER APXS EDRs.
	apxs_rdr_sis.pdf	Adobe PDF version of the APXS RDR SIS
	apxs_rdr_sis.lbl	PDS label describing the apxs_rdr_sis.htm and apxs_rdr_sis.pdf files.
	mer2_apxs_obs.csv	Summary information for MER 2 APXS EDR products in a comma-delimited ASCII table.
	mer2_apxs_obs.lbl	PDS label describing mer2_apxs_obs.csv.
	mer_time_issues.txt	Explanation of issues related to time tags in MER data products.
Calibration Files
	apxs_sample_analyses.csv	Composition data for 11 geostandards.
	apxs_sample_literature.csv	Reference information for the 11geostandards.
	apxs_data_reduction.pdf	Document that describes the generation of APXS derived data products, in PDF and HTML format. The PDS label describes both files.
	apxs_data_reduction.htm
	apxs_data_reduction.lbl
	mer2_apxs_compounds.csv	APXS data for sixteen compounds and other targets.
	mer2_apxs_calspectra.csv	APXS data for 11 geostandards.
	apxs_calib_plan.lbl	PDS label describing the PDF file.
	apxs_calib_plan.pdf	Calibration plan in Adobe PDF format.
Catalog Files
	mission.cat	A brief description of the mission. It includes a chronology of events, definition of mission phases, and science objectives.
	apxs_mer2_ds.cat	A description of the data set contained in the archive.
	mer2_apxs_inst.cat	An overview of the instrument(s) that acquired the data in the archive.
	mer2_insthost.cat	A description of the spacecraft (instrument host) that carried the instruments.
	person.cat	A listing of key people involved in producing the archive.
	ref.cat	A listing of references cited in these catalog files.
Data Set Errata
	errata.txt	Comments on APXS data.
	errata.txt	Comments on APXS x-ray spectra data.
Software
	softinfo.txt	Description of APXS software tools
	APXS_data_parse_input.pro	These files are used to extract MER APXS data from a binary EDR file and output the results as ASCII. Refer to the softinfo.txt file for details.
	APXS_data_parse_input.lbl
	apxs2asc.pro
	apxs2asc.lbl