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              Welcome to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Archive
                             MARS CLIMATE SOUNDER (MCS): Surface Ground Temperature
                                                           Sep 24, 2006 (Ls 110.9 MY 28) to [ongoing]



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    Profiles of derived atmospheric temperature, and dust (21.6 μm) and water ice (11.9 μm) opacity per kilometer (km-1), from limb observations obtained with the MCS instrument on MRO. Uncertainty (error) bars for the derived temperatures are included. The MRO MCS DDR file within which the graphed data above are provided is available here.



    Useful Mission Documents
    Description of data volume
    Mission Description and Documents
    Spacecraft Description
    Instrument Description
    Calibration Documents
    Indexes
    References

    Retrieve a Sample Data Volume (this link will display the most current MCS Derived Data Records archive Volume available)

    MRO MCS Derived Data Records (DDR) Version 2 MRO MCS REPROCESSED VERSION 2 data are now available. These are the most up-to-date derived atmospheric profiles of temperature, density, and aerosol abundance obtained from MCS radiance measurements. A ground surface temperature is also derived with each profile. The data are packaged in an Earth-month Volume structure, with the data therein subdivided in to individual Earth-day folders during the month and then in to 6 data files per day, so each ASCII file contains 4 hours of time coverage, with one day's 6 files contained within a single day-of-month folder. Data are currently available from September 2006 (mrom_2001) through October 2014 (mrom_2098). For a detailed data set description see Dataset.cat.

    Although minor editing may still occur, the data themselves are CERTIFIED for use under 
NASA DAP proposals.

    mrom_2001, mrom_2002, mrom_2003, mrom_2004, mrom_2005, mrom_2006, mrom_2007, mrom_2008, mrom_2009, mrom_2010, mrom_2011, mrom_2012, mrom_2013, mrom_2014, mrom_2015, mrom_2016, mrom_2017, mrom_2018, mrom_2019, mrom_2020, mrom_2021, mrom_2022, mrom_2023, mrom_2024, mrom_2025, mrom_2026, mrom_2027, mrom_2028, mrom_2029, mrom_2030, mrom_2031, mrom_2032, mrom_2033, mrom_2034, mrom_2035, mrom_2036, mrom_2040, mrom_2041, mrom_2042, mrom_2043, mrom_2044, mrom_2045, mrom_2046, mrom_2047, mrom_2048, mrom_2049, mrom_2050, mrom_2051, mrom_2052, mrom_2053, mrom_2054, mrom_2055, mrom_2056, mrom_2057, mrom_2058, mrom_2059, mrom_2060, mrom_2061, mrom_2062, mrom_2063, mrom_2064, mrom_2065, mrom_2066, mrom_2067, mrom_2068, mrom_2069, mrom_2070, mrom_2071, mrom_2072, mrom_2073, mrom_2074, mrom_2075, mrom_2076, mrom_2077, mrom_2078, mrom_2079, mrom_2080, mrom_2081, mrom_2082, mrom_2083, mrom_2084, mrom_2085, mrom_2086, mrom_2087, mrom_2088, mrom_2089, mrom_2090, mrom_2091, mrom_2092, mrom_2093, mrom_2094, mrom_2095, mrom_2096, mrom_2097, mrom_2098, mrom_2099, mrom_2100, mrom_2101, mrom_2102, mrom_2103, mrom_2104


    NOTE: MCS data are NOT available for the months of September 2009, October 2009, and November 2009 (the 37th, 38th, and 39th months of the archive) because MCS was turned off during those months.

    The previous MRO MCS Version 1 DDRs are available on request from Lyle Huber lhuber@nmsu.edu

    MRO MCS Reduced Data Records (RDR)
 These volumes contain the reduced data where the reduction is from DNs to physical units. (radiance measurements, for instance). The first data folder, mrom_1001, contains data for September 2006, while the most recent available month's data, mrom_1098, contains data from October 2014. For a detailed dataset description see Dataset.cat.

    mrom_1001, mrom_1002, mrom_1003, mrom_1004, mrom_1005, mrom_1006, mrom_1007, mrom_1008, mrom_1009, mrom_1010, mrom_1011, mrom_1012, mrom_1013, mrom_1014, mrom_1015, mrom_1016, mrom_1017, mrom_1018, mrom_1019, mrom_1020, mrom_1021, mrom_1022, mrom_1023, mrom_1024, mrom_1025, mrom_1026, mrom_1027, mrom_1028, mrom_1029, mrom_1030, mrom_1031, mrom_1032, mrom_1033, mrom_1034, mrom_1035, mrom_1036, mrom_1040, mrom_1041, mrom_1042, mrom_1043, mrom_1044, mrom_1045, mrom_1046, mrom_1047, mrom_1048, mrom_1049, mrom_1050, mrom_1051, mrom_1052, mrom_1053, mrom_1054, mrom_1055, mrom_1056, mrom_1057, mrom_1058, mrom_1059, mrom_1060, mrom_1061, mrom_1062, mrom_1063, mrom_1064, mrom_1065, mrom_1066, mrom_1067, mrom_1068, mrom_1069, mrom_1070, mrom_1071, mrom_1072, mrom_1073, mrom_1074, mrom_1075, mrom_1076, mrom_1077, mrom_1078, mrom_1079, mrom_1080, mrom_1081, mrom_1082, mrom_1083, mrom_1084, mrom_1085, mrom_1086, mrom_1087, mrom_1088, mrom_1089, mrom_1090, mrom_1091, mrom_1092, mrom_1093, mrom_1094, mrom_1095, mrom_1096, mrom_1097, mrom_1098, mrom_1099, mrom_1100, mrom_1101, mrom_1102, mrom_1103, mrom_1104

    MRO MCS raw Engineering Data Records (EDR)
 These volumes contain one month of raw Digital Number (DN) sensor-level data, as well as detector science measurements of scene views and of calibration targets. The first data volume/folder, mrom_0001 contains EDR data for September 2006, while the most recent available month's data, mrom_0098, contains EDR data from October 20144. For a detailed dataset description see Dataset.cat

    mrom_0001, mrom_0002, mrom_0003, mrom_0004, mrom_0005, mrom_0006, mrom_0007, mrom_0008, mrom_0009, mrom_0010, mrom_0011, mrom_0012, mrom_0013, mrom_0014, mrom_0015, mrom_0016, mrom_0017, mrom_0018, mrom_0019, mrom_0020, mrom_0021, mrom_0022, mrom_0023, mrom_0024, mrom_0025, mrom_0026, mrom_0027, mrom_0028, mrom_0029, mrom_0030, mrom_0031, mrom_0032, mrom_0033, mrom_0034, mrom_0035, mrom_0036, mrom_0040, mrom_0041, mrom_0042, mrom_0043, mrom_0044, mrom_0045, mrom_0046, mrom_0047, mrom_0048, mrom_0049, mrom_0050, mrom_0051, mrom_0052, mrom_0053, mrom_0054, mrom_0055, mrom_0056, mrom_0057, mrom_0058, mrom_0059, mrom_0060, mrom_0061, mrom_0062, mrom_0063, mrom_0064, mrom_0065, mrom_0066, mrom_0067, mrom_0068, mrom_0069, mrom_0070, mrom_0071, mrom_0072, mrom_0073, mrom_0074, mrom_0075, mrom_0076, mrom_0077, mrom_0078, mrom_0079, mrom_0080, mrom_0081, mrom_0082, mrom_0083, mrom_0084, mrom_0085, mrom_0086, mrom_0087, mrom_0088, mrom_0089, mrom_0090, mrom_0091, mrom_0092, mrom_0093, mrom_0094, mrom_0095, mrom_0096, mrom_0097, mrom_0098, mrom_0099, mrom_0100, mrom_0101, mrom_0102, mrom_0103, mrom_0104










































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