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PDS_VERSION_ID                     = PDS3                                     
LABEL_REVISION_NOTE                = "                                        
  Brian Carcich                                                               
  2008-02-22                                                                  
  V1.0;                                                                       
  2018-08-06, D. Kazden (PPI), removed ARCHIVE_STATUS keyword;"               
RECORD_TYPE                        = STREAM                                   
INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME               = "NEW HORIZONS"                           
OBJECT                             = DATA_SET                                 
  DATA_SET_ID                      = "NH-J-PEPSSI-3-JUPITER-V1.0"             
                                                                              
  OBJECT                           = DATA_SET_INFORMATION                     
                                                                              
    ABSTRACT_DESC                  = "                                        
      This data set contains Calibrated data taken by the New Horizons        
        Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation           
      instrument during the                                                   
        Jupiter encounter                                                     
      mission phase.                                                          
      "                                                                       
   CITATION_DESC                  = "                                        
      McNutt, R. Jr., NEW HORIZONS                                            
      PEPSSI JUPITER ENCOUNTER V1.0,                                          
      NH-J-PEPSSI-3-JUPITER-V1.0,                                             
      NASA Planetary Data System, 2007.                                       
      "                                                                       
    CONFIDENCE_LEVEL_NOTE            = "                                      
    Confidence Level Overview                                                 
    =========================                                                 
      During the processing of the data in preparation for                    
      delivery with this volume, the packet data associated with each         
      observation were used only if they passed a rigorous verification       
      process including standard checksums.                                   
    Review                                                                    
    ======                                                                    
      The data have been reviewed and validated by the instrument team        
      members, as well as by SOC personnel.                                   
      "                                                                       
    DATA_OBJECT_TYPE               = "IMAGE"                                  
    DATA_SET_COLLECTION_MEMBER_FLG = "N"                                      
    DATA_SET_NAME                  = "NEW HORIZONS                            
      PEPSSI JUPITER ENCOUNTER                                                
      V1.0"                                                                   
    DATA_SET_RELEASE_DATE          = 2008-02-22                               
    DATA_SET_TERSE_DESC            = "                                        
      Calibrated data taken by New Horizons                                   
        Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation           
      instrument during the JUPITER mission phase.                            
      "                                                                       
    DETAILED_CATALOG_FLAG          = "N"                                      
    PRODUCER_FULL_NAME             = "JOSEPH PETERSON"                        
    START_TIME                     = 2007-01-01T00:00:00                      
    STOP_TIME                      = 2007-06-27T00:00:00                      
                                                                              
    DATA_SET_DESC                  = "                                        
                                                                              
    Data Set Overview                                                         
    =================                                                         
                                                                              
      This data set contains Calibrated data taken by New Horizons            
        Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation           
      instrument during the JUPITER mission phase.                            
                                                                              
      There are PEPSSI data in the Jupiter phase from day 6 to day 178        
      of 2007.  This period can be separated into three sub-intervals:        
      upstream from day 6 to 50; encounter from day 50 to 68; tail            
      from day 68, to ~178.  The divisions are arbitrary, but provide         
      a coarse characterization of the data taken during this phase.          
      Flux measurements clearly indicate the approach and recession of        
      NH from Jupiter, and PEPSSI's compositional measurements show,          
      H, He, O, and S, sulfur being a clear signature of Io's volcanic        
      activity.  When the sun passed through the PEPSSI FOV, the              
      instrument was safed by ramping down the bias voltage and high          
      voltage.  This period does include some tests designed to               
      investigate the instrument's performance under high-rate                
      conditions, but is dominated by data intended for scientific            
      study of Juptier's magnetosphere, deep magnetotail, and upstream        
      regions.                                                                
                                                                              
      Every observation provided in this data set was taken as a part of a    
      particular sequence.  A list of these sequences follows:                
                                                                              
      Sequence IDs & start times (end times are the start times               
      of the following Sequence IDs) for the PEPSSI instrument                
      during the JUPITER phase of the New Horizons Mission                    
      =========================================================               
                                                                              
      Sequence ID:  JEPE_UPSTREAM                                             
      Start UTC:    2007-01-01T00:00:00                                       
      Description:  JUPITER; Pre-encounter                                    
                                                                              
      Sequence ID:  JEPE_ENCOUNTER                                            
      Start UTC:    2007-02-19T00:00:00                                       
      Description:  JUPITER; encounter                                        
                                                                              
      Sequence ID:  JEPE_TAIL                                                 
      Start UTC:    2007-03-09T00:00:00                                       
      Description:  JUPITER; Post-encounter                                   
                                                                              
      For the list of observations and their parameters, refer to             
      the data set index table (typically INDEX.TAB & CUMINDEX.TAB,           
      initially in the /INDEX/ area of the data set).                         
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Time                                                                      
    ====                                                                      
                                                                              
      There are several time systems, or units, in use in this dataset:       
      New Horizons spacecraft MET (Mission Event Time or Mission Elapsed      
      Time), UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), and TDB Barycentric            
      Dynamical Time.                                                         
                                                                              
      This section will give a summary description of the relationship        
      between these time systems.  For a complete explanation of these        
      time systems the reader is referred to the documentation                
      distributed with the NAIF/SPICE toolkit from the NAIF PDS node.         
                                                                              
      The most common time unit associated with the data is is the            
      spacecraft MET.  MET is a 32-bit counter on the New Horizons            
      spacecraft that runs at a rate of about one increment per second        
      starting from a value of zero at                                        
                                                                              
        19.January, 2006 18:08:02 UTC                                         
                                                                              
      or                                                                      
                                                                              
        JD2453755.256337 TDB.                                                 
                                                                              
      The leapsecond adjustment (DELTA_ET = ET - UTC) over this dataset       
      is 65.184s.                                                             
                                                                              
      The data labels for any given product in this dataset usually           
      contain at least one pair of common UTC and MET representations         
      of the time at the middle of the observation.  Other portions           
      of the products, for example tables of data taken over periods          
      of up to a day or more, will only have the MET time associated          
      with a given row of the table.                                          
                                                                              
      For the data user's use in interpreting these times, a reasonable       
      approximation (+/- 1s) of the conversion between Julian Day (TDB)       
      and MET is as follows:                                                  
                                                                              
        JD TDB = 2453755.256337 + ( MET / 86399.9998693 )                     
                                                                              
      For more accurate calculations the reader is referred to the            
      NAIF/SPICE documentation as mentioned above.                            
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Processing                                                                
    ==========                                                                
                                                                              
      The data in this data set were created by a software data               
      processing pipeline on the Science Operation Center (SOC) at            
      the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), Department of Space Studies.   
      This SOC pipeline assembled data as FITS files from raw telemetry       
      packets sent down by the spacecraft and populated the data labels       
      with housekeeping and engineering values, and computed geometry         
      parameters using SPICE kernels. The pipeline did not resample           
      the data.                                                               
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Data                                                                      
    ====                                                                      
                                                                              
      The observations in this data set are stored in data files using        
      standard Flexible Image Transport Sytem (FITS) format.  Each FITS       
      file has a corresponding detached PDS label file, named according       
      to a common convention.  The FITS files have image and/or table         
      extensions; see the PDS label plus the DOCUMENT files for a             
      description of these extensions and their contents.                     
                                                                              
                                                                              
      This Data section comprises the following sub-topics:                   
                                                                              
      - Filename/Product IDs                                                  
      - CODMAC Level 3 PEPSSI data details                                    
      - Instrument description                                                
      - Visit Description, Visit Number, and Target in the Data Labels        
      - Unresolved Liens on the Data                                          
                                                                              
                                                                              
      Filename/Product IDs                                                    
      --------------------                                                    
                                                                              
        The filenames and product IDs of observations adhere to a             
        common convention e.g.                                                
                                                                              
         ALI_0123456789_0X0AB_ENG_1.FIT                                       
         ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^\__/                                       
         |        |       |    |  | ^^                                        
         |        |       |    |  |  |                                        
         |        |       |    |  |  +--File type (includes dot)              
         |        |       |    |  |     - .FIT for FITS file                  
         |        |       |    |  |     - .LBL for PDS label                  
         |        |       |    |  |     - not part of product ID              
         |        |       |    |  |                                           
         |        |       |    |  +-- Version number from the SOC             
         |        |       |    |      (Science Operations Center)             
         |        |       |    |                                              
         |        |       |    +--ENG for CODMAC Level 2 data *               
         |        |       |       SCI for CODMAC Level 3 data *               
         |        |       |                                                   
         |        |       +--Application ID (ApID) of the telemetry data      
         |        |          packet from which the data come                  
         |        |                                                           
         |        +--MET (Mission Event Time) i.e. Spacecraft Clock           
         |                                                                    
         +--Instrument/observation designator                                 
                                                                              
          * For those datasets where the NH project is delivering             
            CODMAC Level 1 & 2 data (REX & PEPSSI), ENG and SCI apply         
            to CODMAC Level 1 & 2 data, respectively.                         
                                                                              
                                                                              
        Instrument   Instrument/observation designators  ApIDs                
        ===========  ==================================  =============        
         PEPSSI       PEP                                0X691 - 0X696 *      
                                                                              
         * Not all values in this range are used                              
                                                                              
         There are other ApIDs that contain housekeeping values and           
         other values.  See the documentation for more details.               
                                                                              
                                                                              
        Here is a summary of the types of files generated by each APiD:       
                                                                              
                                                                              
      ApIDs   Data product description                                        
      =====   ========================                                        
      0x691 - PEPSSI High Priority Science                                    
      0x692 - PEPSSI Medium Priority Science                                  
      0x693 - PEPSSI Low Priority Science (Up to 500 PHA events)              
      0x694 - PEPSSI Low Priority Science (Up to additional 500 PHA events)   
      0x695 - PEPSSI High Priority Science                                    
      0x696 - PEPSSI Medium Priority Science                                  
      0x697 - PEPSSI Low Priority Science (Up to 500 PHA events)              
      0x698 - PEPSSI Low Priority Science (Up to additional 500 PHA events)   
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
      Instrument description                                                  
      ----------------------                                                  
                                                                              
        Refer to the following files for a description of this instrument.    
                                                                              
        CATALOG                                                               
                                                                              
          PEPSSI.CAT                                                          
                                                                              
        DOCUMENTS                                                             
                                                                              
          PEPSSI_SSR.*                                                        
          NH_PEPSSI_V###_TI.TXT  (### is a version number)                    
          SOC_INST_ICD.*                                                      
                                                                              
                                                                              
      Visit Description, Visit Number, and Target in the Data Labels          
      ---------------------------------------------------------------         
                                                                              
        The observation sequences were defined in Science Activity            
        Planning (SAP) documents, and grouped by Visit Description and        
        Visit Number.  The SAPs are spreadsheets with one Visit Description   
        & Number per row.  A nominal target is also included on each row      
        and included in the data labels, but does not always match with the   
        TARGET_NAME field's value in the data labels.  In some cases, the     
        target was designated as RA,DEC pointing values in the form           
        ``RADEC=123.45,-12.34'' indicating Right Ascension and Declination,   
        in degrees, of the target from the spacecraft in the Earth            
        Equatorial J2000 inertial reference frame.  This indicates either     
        that the target was either a star, or that the target's ephemeris     
        was not loaded into the spacecraft's attitude and control system      
        which in turn meant the spacecraft could not be pointed at the        
        target by a body identifier and an inertial pointing value had to     
        be specified as Right Ascension and Declination values.  The PDS      
        standards do not allow putting a value like RADEC=... in the PDS      
        TARGET_NAME keyword's value; in those cases the PDS TARGET_NAME       
        value is set to CALIBRATION.                                          
                                                                              
                                                                              
      Unresolved Liens on the Data                                            
      ----------------------------                                            
                                                                              
        None exist at the present time.                                       
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Ancillary Data                                                            
    ==============                                                            
                                                                              
      The geometry items included in the data labels were computed            
      using the SPICE kernels archived in the New Horizons SPICE              
      data set, NH-X-SPICE-6-JUPITER-V1.0.                                    
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Reference Frame                                                           
    ===============                                                           
                                                                              
                                                                              
      Geometric Parameter Reference Frame                                     
      -----------------------------------                                     
        Earth Mean Equator and Vernal Equinox of J2000 (EMEJ2000) is the      
        inertial reference frame used to specify observational geometry       
        items provided in the data labels.  Geometric parameters are based    
        on best available SPICE data at time of data creation.                
                                                                              
                                                                              
      Epoch of Geometric Parameters                                           
      -----------------------------                                           
        All geometric parameters provided in the data labels were             
        computed at the epoch midway between the START_TIME and               
        STOP_TIME label fields.                                               
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Software                                                                  
    ========                                                                  
                                                                              
      The observations in this data set are in standard FITS format           
      with PDS labels, and can be viewed by a number of PDS-provided          
      and commercial programs. For this reason no special software is         
      provided with this data set.                                            
                                                                              
                                                                              
    Contact Information                                                       
    ===================                                                       
                                                                              
      For any questions regarding the data format of the archive,             
      contact the person whose PDS_USER_ID is RMCNUTT                         
      as described in PERSONNEL.CAT.                                          
      "                                                                       
                                                                              
  END_OBJECT                       = DATA_SET_INFORMATION                     
                                                                              
  OBJECT                           = DATA_SET_MISSION                         
    MISSION_NAME                   = "NEW HORIZONS"                           
  END_OBJECT                       = DATA_SET_MISSION                         
                                                                              
  OBJECT                           = DATA_SET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION           
    REFERENCE_KEY_ID               = "N/A"                                    
  END_OBJECT                       = DATA_SET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION           
                                                                              
  OBJECT                           = DATA_SET_TARGET                          
    TARGET_NAME                    = "SOLAR WIND"                             
  END_OBJECT                       = DATA_SET_TARGET                          
                                                                              
  OBJECT                           = DATA_SET_HOST                            
    INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID             = "NH"                                     
    INSTRUMENT_ID                  = "PEPSSI"                                 
  END_OBJECT                       = DATA_SET_HOST                            
                                                                              
END_OBJECT                         = DATA_SET                                 
                                                                              
END