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    • UARS PEM Level 2 HEPS A V002 (UARPE2HEPSA) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: October 30, 2025

    The Particle Environment Monitor (PEM) level 2 High-Energy Particle Spectrometer (HEPS) A daily product contains electron high-resolution spectral data converted to number intensity units from the HEPS telescopes mounted on the zenith UARS boom. PEM was flown on the UARS spacecraft to measure the type, amount, energy, and distribution of charged particles injected into the Earth's thermosphere, mesosphere, and stratosphere.

    The PEM HEPS electron data covers roughly the energy range from 35 keV to 5 MeV. There are four telescopes mounted in different directions. These measure -15 deg, +15 deg, +45 deg, and +90 degrees with respect to the spacecraft -z-axis and along the spacecraft +x-axis. The HEPS electron units accumulate a spectrum in 4.086 seconds. There are two HEPS units in these data product files (labeled HEPS1 and HEPS2), each containing two telescopes (labeled telescope 1 and telescope 2). Each telescope contains a stack of solid state crystals. The signals from each of the crystals are combined by energy processing electronics of the instrument to yield two logical crystals or detectors, called the DE and EE detectors. The DE detector has the rough energy range from 35 keV to 300 keV and the EE detector rough energy range is from 300 keV to 5 MeV.

    There is one data file per day for the PEM HEPSA product, and the temporal coverage is from Oct. 1, 1991 to Aug. 23, 2005. Spatial coverage for the HEPSA product ranges between -57 and +57 degrees latitude. The HEPSA data files are written in network binary format. For more information please review the PEM HEPSA data format guide.

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    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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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1273348593-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 1997-09-08
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category UARS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1273348593-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -57.15 180.0 57.15
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash fd776269ffbf836c9769fd2af0d7b59578f7aa6ff453477de468636452a81c9d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1991-10-01T00:00:00Z/2005-08-23T23:59:59.999Z

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