How are products identified?

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Data products file names may be confusing at first sight. However, each Phoenix EDR and RDR data product is uniquely identified by incorporating into the product filename several parameters. These are:

 

Field

Size

Meaning

inst

1 alpha

Phoenix science instrument identifier

source/epic

1 alpha

Spacecraft identifier

sol

3 numeric

Solar days since first full day on Mars.

prod

3 alphanumeric

Product type

spec

 

Reserved instrument specific fields

who

1 alpha

Producer

ver

1 alphanumeric

Version number

.

period

Always set to ASCII period

ext

3 alpha

File extension

.

The file name usually takes the form:

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

inst

source/epic

sol

product

type

instrument specific

who

ver

.

ext

 

For more information, read File Naming.