Supported Planetary Image Types

Table of Contents

General Information

Structure

  • Mission - Launch Year - Destination
    • Camera (Acronym)
      • Volume - Description
        • Symbol Image: Link_to_file
        • Label: Link_to_file
      • Volume - Description
        • Symbol Image: Link_to_file
        • Label: Link_to_file

  • Mission - Launch Year - Destination

This list is in chronological order, based on launch date, with the most recent mission at the top of the list and older missions at the bottom.

Symbols

  • good = image works
  • bad = image does not work
  • none = image has not been tested
  • nodisp = planetaryimage can open the file but plt.imshow does not work

Editing

If editing this document, to mark an image as good with a green square (good) add |good|, mark bad with a red square (bad) add |bad|, mark that imshow does not work with a blue square (nodisp) add |nodisp| and unknown/not tested with a white sqaure (none) add |none| before “Image” like so:

|good| Image: image.img
|bad| Image: image.img
|none| Image: image.img
|nodisp| Image: image.img

See Usage for documentation on how to open the images.

PDS List

  • Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) - 1996 - Mars

    • Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)

      • mgsc_0005 - Decompressed Standard Data Products

      • mgsc_1006 - Standard Data Records

      • RDRs

        • This data set is being prepared for peer review; it has not been reviewed by PDS and is NOT PDS-compliant and is NOT considered to be Certified Data.

  • Viking Lander - 1975 - Mars

    • Experiment Data Records

    • Processed Images

      • The following are NOT PDS formatted volumes. They were produced by the Science Digital Data Preservation Task by copying data directly off of old, decaying tape media onto more stable CD-WO media. They have not been otherwise reformatted.

      • vl_2111 - Viking Lander 1

      • vl_2112 Viking Lander 2

  • Mariner 10 - 1973 - Mercury and Venus

    • Experiment Data Records

      • “The following are NOT PDS formatted volumes. They were produced by the Science Digital Data Preservation Task by copying data directly from old, decaying tape media onto more stable CD-WO media, then transferred online. They have not been otherwise reformatted.”

      • mvm_0013