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NEW HORIZONS SDC PLUTO ENCOUNTER CALIBRATED V2.0

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

This data set contains Calibrated data taken by the New Horizons Student Dust Counter instrument during the Pluto encounter mission phase. This is VERSION 2.0 of this data set. This data set contains SDC observations taken during the the Approach (Jan-Jul, 2015), Encounter and Departure mission sub-phases, including flyby observations taken on 14.July, 2015, and including data through 2015 and into January, 2016; the data are limited to those downlinked from the spacecraft as of the end of January, 2016. The rest of the downlinked data for this mission phase will be delivered in a future data set. This is version 2.0 of this data set. Changes since version 1.0 include data downlinked between the end of July, 2015 and the end of January, 2016. Also, updates were made to the documentation and catalog files, primarily to resolve liens from the V1.0 peer review.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

Downloads & Resources

References

https://pds.nasa.gov

Dates

Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 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 23, 2025
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier urn:nasa:pds:context_pds3:data_set:data_set.nh-p-sdc-3-pluto-v2.0_5cgx-gh5g
Data First Published 2021-05-21
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 18d1858b-02f6-4a43-974a-afe9b2bf6024
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewDataset.jsp?dsid=NH-P-SDC-3-PLUTO-V2.0
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 026:005
Related Documents https://pds.nasa.gov
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash a238a03eb6ecdb13a23ed0e2cd8c377bfa33b9238133beadd894543e1434803c
Source Schema Version 1.1

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