Moessbauer Data Set Documents for Opportunity
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
mb_edr_sis.htm HyperText version of the "Mars Exploration Rover Mossbauer Spectrometer Experiment Data Record SIS".  This document is a software interface specification describing the format of the MER MB EDRs.
mb_edr_sis.pdf Adobe PDF version of the MB_EDR_SIS.
mb_edr_sis.lbl PDS label describing the MB_EDR_SIS.ASC and MB_EDR_SIS.PDF files.
mer1_mb_obs.csv Summary information for MER-2 MB EDR products in a comma-delimited ASCII table.
mer1_mb_obs.lbl PDS label describing mer1_MB_OBS.CSV.
mer_time_issues.txt Explanation of issues related to time tags in MER data products.
mb_rdr_dpsis.htm The Data Product Software Interface Specification document for the data set on this volume. This document is given in HTML and PDF format.
mb_rdr_dpsis.lbl MB_RDR_DPSIS.LBL is a PDS label that describes both the HTML and PDF files.
mb_rdr_dpsis.pdf Adobe PDF version of the Data Product SIS
scirdr_archsis.htm The Archive Volume Software Interface Specification document that describes the content and structure of this archive volume. This document is given in HTML and PDF format.
scirdr_archsis.lbl SCIRDR_ARCHSIS.LBL is a PDS label that describes both the HTML and PDF files.
scirdr_archsis.pdf Adobe PDF version of the Archive Volume SIS
     
Calibration Files
engcalib.txt Description of energy calibration.
velcalib.txt Description of velocity calibration.
mer1_vel_scale_cct.csv Velocity scale for the CCT.
mer1_vel_scale_surface.csv Velocity scale for surface measurements.
     
Catalog Files
mission.cat A brief description of the mission.  It includes a chronology of events, definition of mission phases, and science objectives.
mb_mer1_ds.cat A description of the data set contained in the archive.
mb_mer1_sumspec_ds.cat A description of the data set contained in the archive.
mer1_mb_inst.cat An overview of the instrument(s) that acquired the data in the archive.
mer1_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 Moessbauer EDR data.
errata.txt Comments on Moessbauer summed spectra data.
     
Software
softinfo.txt Description of Moessbauer software tools
mb_data_parse_input.pro These files are used to extract MER Moessbauer data from a binary EDR file and output the results as ASCII. Refer to the softinfo.txt file for details.
mb_data_parse_input.lbl
mb2asc.pro
mb2asc.lbl