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EROS MSI IMAGES WITH GEOMETRY BACKPLANES

Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

This data set contains data products for 93,397 images obtained by the Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission during the orbital phase at asteroid 433 Eros. The data products include geometric and geophysical information for each pixel. The data products are in the form of backplanes, stored in the FITS image format. There is one backplane file for each MSI image. Each of the MSI backplane files is a 16-band image cube. The bands of the cube contain the information detailed below calculated for the center of each pixel: 1: Pixel values (I/F) of the original FITS images delivered to the PDS by the NEAR team [Murchie et al., 2001], linearly resampled to rectify the image by squaring the pixels. The original image size is 537 x 244 pixels and the rectified size is 537 x 412 pixels. 2: x coordinate (kilometers) of the intercept with the surface of the asteroid in body-fixed reference frame 3: y coordinate (kilometers) of the intercept with the surface of the asteroid in body-fixed reference frame 4: z coordinate (kilometers) of the intercept with the surface of the asteroid in body-fixed reference frame 5: latitude (planetocentric, degrees) 6: longitude (degrees east) 7: radial distance (kilometers) from the asteroid center of figure 8: solar incidence angle (degrees) 9: emission angle (degrees) 10: solar phase angle (degrees) 11: horizontal pixel scale (kilometers) 12: vertical pixel scale (kilometers) 13: average surface slope relative to gravity (degrees) 14: average elevation relative to gravity (meters) 15: average gravitational acceleration (meters/[s^2]) 16: average gravitational potential (J/kg)

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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References

https://pds.nasa.gov

Dates

Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier urn:nasa:pds:nearmsi.shapebackplane_fgs2-u68q
Data First Published 2018-06-26
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
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Homepage URL https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewBundle.jsp?identifier=urn%3Anasa%3Apds%3Anearmsi.shapebackplane&version=1.0
Program Code 026:005
Related Documents https://pds.nasa.gov
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