PDS_VERSION_ID                = PDS3                                          
 RECORD_TYPE                  = STREAM                                        
 OBJECT                       = TEXT                                          
   PUBLICATION_DATE           = 2002-09-15                                    
   NOTE                       = "INFO.TXT describes the contents of this      
                                directory."                                   
 END_OBJECT                   = TEXT                                          
END                                                                           
                                                                              
This directory contains Voyager 2 PRA Receiver high time resolution low       
rate receiver band data recorded during the Voyager 2 Jupiter encounter       
from 1979-04-25 to 1979-08-04.                                                
                                                                              
The data are stored as 4 ASCII tables (.TAB), each accompanied with a PDS     
label file (.LBL) which describes properties of the data file.  Data          
cover the following time intervals:                                           
       PRA_I.TAB    1979-04-25 - 1979-05-28;                                  
      PRA_II.TAB    1979-05-29 - 1979-06-23;                                  
     PRA_III.TAB    1979-06-24 - 1979-07-12;                                  
      PRA_IV.TAB    1979-07-13 - 1979-08-04.                                  
                                                                              
Additional information associated with this data set is available in the      
following files:                                                              
                                                                              
file                           contents                                       
                                                                              
/CATALOG/PRA2_INST.CAT         VG2 PRA instrument description                 
/CATALOG/VG2_JUP_HRES_DS.CAT   data set description                           
/CATALOG/PERSON.CAT            personnel information                          
/CATALOG/REF.CAT               key reference description                      
/DOCUMENT/PRA/PRAINST.ASC      ASCII and HTML versions of the PRA             
          and PRAINST.HTM        investigation description paper              
                                 [WARWICKETAL1977]                            
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                   /-------------------------\                                
                   |        D A T A          |                                
                   \-------------------------/                                
Columns                                                                       
===========================================================================   
name             type       description                                       
---------------------------------------------------------------------------   
date             i6         year, month, and day of start of first sweep      
                            (SCET) in the format YYMMDD                       
second           i6         seconds of day (SCET) of start of first sweep     
                                                                              
sweep_structure  (i284)     this 'structure' is a PDS CONTAINER object        
                            consisting of 8 repetitions of 71 columns         
                            spanning 284 bytes (8 sweeps through the PRA      
                            instrument).                                      
  status_word    i4         a single 4-byte status word indicating            
                            attenuators used to record the data, data         
                            polariation, and data confidence                  
  data_channels  i4(x70)    70 4-byte data samples for 70 low band channels