The data format of the MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) onboard BepiColombo

Mario D'Amore; Jörn Helbert; Alessandro Maturilli; Jorg Knollenberg; Rainer Berlin; Gisbert Peter; Thomas Säuberlich; Harald Hiesinger

doi:10.1117/12.2593452

1 August 2021 The data format of the MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) onboard BepiColombo

Mario D'Amore, Jörn Helbert, Alessandro Maturilli, Jorg Knollenberg, Rainer Berlin, Gisbert Peter, Thomas Säuberlich, Harald Hiesinger

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Proceedings Volume 11830, Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXIX; 118300B (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593452
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

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The MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) is an instrument to study the mineralogy and temperature distribution of Mercury's surface in unprecedented detail. During the nominal mission, MERTIS will map the whole surface at 500 m scale, combining a push-broom IR grating spectrometer (TIS) with a radiometer (TIR) sharing the same optics, instrument electronics, and in- ight calibration components for the wavelength range of 7-14 μm (TIS) and 7-40 μm (TIR). MERTIS observed the Moon in April 2020 and Venus in October 2020 under conditions different from nominal operation and performed surprisingly well. MERTIS returned several hundreds of thousands scientifically useful spectra from the two campaigns. MERTIS archival data are stored in Planetary Data System v4 format (PDS4), that describes 2 physical formats for each MERTIS channel. Each channel will is stored in Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) and in pure ASCII, to maximize both machine and human readability.

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Mario D'Amore, Jörn Helbert, Alessandro Maturilli, Jorg Knollenberg, Rainer Berlin, Gisbert Peter, Thomas Säuberlich, and Harald Hiesinger "The data format of the MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) onboard BepiColombo", Proc. SPIE 11830, Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXIX, 118300B (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593452

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