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MESSENGER MDIS MAP PROJECTED BASEMAP RDR V1.0

Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

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 the Basemap Reduced Data Records. The Map Projected Basemap RDR (BDR) data set consists of a global map of I/F measured by the NAC or in WAC filter 7 (both centered near 750 nm) at moderate/high incidence angle, 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 256 pixels per degree. The map is divided into 54 segments or 'tiles', each representing the NW, NE, SW, or SE quadrant of one of the 13 non-polar or one of the 2 polar quadrangles or 'Mercury charts' already defined by the USGS. Each tile also contains 5 backplanes: observation id for each included image; BDR metric, used to determine the stacking order of component images; solar incidence angle; emission angle; and phase angle.

Access & Use Information

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

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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:context_pds3:data_set:data_set.mess-h-mdis-5-rdr-bdr-v1.0_qzib-vnh5
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 97d6b5a4-3a5d-4305-a00c-69f40ef42d65
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=MESS-H-MDIS-5-RDR-BDR-V1.0
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 4cf6f991005dbb3d402ac09c869389143ec2815363d0c8ca300820edfb7ee11a
Source Schema Version 1.1

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