Release Notes

Data for the first 30 sols of the Phoenix mission were released on Dec 23, 2008. Additional data will be released according to the mission archive plan.

Most of the released data are in the Notebook. Some data were not released in time to be included in this Notebook release, but are available from the Planetary Data System (PDS). Refer to the table below.

Data in the Notebook, integrated in sol summaries and the search tools
INSTRUMENT	DATA SET
MECA Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)	All data sets
MECA Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe (TECP)	Raw time series
MECA Wet Chemistry Lab (WCL)	Raw time series
MECA Miscellaneous (Misc)	All data sets
MECA Optical Microscope (OM)	All data sets
MET Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)	All data sets
MET Pressure and Temperature (PT)	All data sets
Robotic Arm Camera (RAC)	All data sets
Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)	Raw images, operations higher level products, science radiometrically calibrated images
Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA)	Raw data

Data in the Notebook, accessible from the Resource tab
INSTRUMENT	DATA SET
Atomic Structure Experiment (ASE)	Time series of raw accelerometer data
Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)	Atmospheric opacity
Telltale	Wind velocity

Data not in the Notebook
INSTRUMENT	DATA SET	AVAILABILITY
Atomic Structure Experiment (ASE)	Atmospheric profiles	Scheduled for release 2
MECA Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)	Derived data sets	Available from PDS Geosciences Node
MECA Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe (TECP)	Derived data sets	Scheduled for release 2
MECA Wet Chemistry Lab (WCL)	Derived concentration time series	Available from PDS Geosciences Node
Robotic Arm	Raw data	Not available due to ITAR restrictions
Robotic Arm	Derived data sets	Scheduled for release 2 or 3
Surface Stereo Imager (SSI)	Science radiometrically calibrated images (I over F)	Scheduled for release 2
Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA)	Derived data sets	Scheduled for release 2

All calibration reports and the MET and TEGA Software Interface Specification (SIS) documents are currently under ITAR clearance review. An approved version of these documents is expected to be part of release 2 (Feb 22, 2009).

The sol summaries contain a list of features and targets defined by the science team that were available for use on a given sol. Not every feature or target listed was used.

Daily activity plans will be included in release 2 of the Notebook (Feb 22, 2009) showing activities, targets, features, and related products.

The Phoenix and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions carried out a series of coordinated observations. The MRO data from coordinated observations within the first 30 sols have not been released at this time. Coordinated observation listings will be included in release 2 of the Notebook (Feb 22, 2009).

1. No RA data are included in this release. An RA activity timeline can be found on the Mission Summaries page.

1. PDS labels for some OM RDR data products include a group named CALIBRATION_PIPELINE. This group and the keywords within it are not standard PDS terms. These labels will be revised to comply with PDS standards in a later Phoenix release.

1. The file SOFTWARE/SOFTINFO.TXT is incomplete. It will be revised by the MECA Team to contain contact information for those looking to obtain utilities to open or process MECA data products. The software utilities will not become part of the MECA archive.

2. This release includes Reduced Data Records (RDRs) for the WCL and AFM components of MECA. The MECA Team is preparing the RDRs for the TEGA component of MECA. They will be included in Release 2, February 20, 2009.

1. PDS labels for some RAC RDR data products include a group named CALIBRATION_PIPELINE. This group and the keywords within it are not standard PDS terms. These labels will be revised to comply with PDS standards in a later Phoenix release.


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