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[elakdawalla]

I'm going to be talking tomorrow with the manager of ESA's Planetary Science Archive (equivalent to NASA's PDS), asking questions about what it is, how it's supposed to work, how it gets funded, what mandates missions have to provide data to it, in what forms and at what processing levels, etc. etc. I thought I'd offer others here the chance to suggest any burning questions you might have with regards to the PSA that I could ask him.

--Emily

[djellison]

Well - most of these are just me wanting to shout at the HRSC scientists....but some might be appropriate. You have a knack of wording things somewhat more appropriately than I

- Can we not just have an FTP server of the data like the PDS so one can just go and grab it instead of ploughing through an awkward JAVA interface that's buggy as hell ( I can see where they're going, but it's currently dreadfull to use, the map method being utterly broken)

- For the love of god zip up the .img's...They could save 50% + of their bandwidth if they had .gz versions of the files...some are >200mb...they're nuts not to do so.

- We need more supporting processing information. The MER Workbook is a haven of large, detailed PDF's telling us exactly how to read the data, specifics regarding IMG headers etc...we need this information for ESA instrumentation as well.

- Map projected HRSC images of the R, G, B, IR and ND channels are available, but not the stereo channels. Any reason?

and this one's actually paraphrased from one I spotted from JB in the first MSL landing meeting write up...
Are the HRSC Dem's going to make it into the public domain? If not...why not. Seems like a fairly fundamental data set from a High Resolution Stereo Camera

Hope it's a constuctive chat!

Doug