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MESS MDIS MAP PROJ 5-COLOR MULTISPECTRAL RDR V1.0

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

Abstract ======== The Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) consists of two cameras, a Wide Angle Camera (WAC) and a Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), mounted on a common pivot platform. This dataset includes 5-Color Multispectral Reduced Data Records for the WAC. The 5-Color Map Projected Multispectral RDR (MP5) data set consists of a 5-color map of northern latitudes acquired during MESSENGER's Extended Mission, and includes I/F in the 5 filters used for this map. This product has higher spatial resolution than, and complements, an 8-color multispectral map acquired during the primary mission (in MDR data products). It has better spectral sampling and the same spatial resolution, and complements, a 3-color multispectral map also acquired during the Extended Mission (in MD3 data products). It is intended to search for spatial variations in color properties of the northern volcanic plains. This product is photometrically normalized to a solar incidence angle (i) = 30 degrees, emission angle (e) = 0 degrees, and phase angle (g) = 30 degrees at a spatial sampling of 128 pixels per degree. The map consists of a single tile covering the north polar quadrangle or 'Mercury chart' already defined by the USGS (H01), plus the northern parts of the 4 Mercury charts immediately to the south (H02-H05). The tile is composed of 5 bands corresponding to 5 of the 11 WAC filters. The tile also contains 6 backplanes describing ancillary information. The subset of 5 of 11 available multispectral filters samples albedo and spectral slope over MDIS's wavelength range. Unlike the 3- and 8-color products, which were acquired with the WAC pointed near nadir, the 5-color map was acquired pointed at a nearly uniform phase angle near 30 degrees to minimize shadowing at the high latitudes of the Northern Volcanic Plains.

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Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Data Update Frequency irregular

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2018-06-26
Data Last Modified 2023-01-26
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
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