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Polar Electric Fields Instrument (EFI), Spacecraft Attitude in GSM coordinates

ResourceID
spase://NASA/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/SC/GSM/Attitude/PT600S

Description

The the Polar spacecraft positive spin axis direction vector (normalized to magnitude 1), in GSM coordinates.

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ResourceID
spase://NASA/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/SC/GSM/Attitude/PT600S
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
Polar Electric Fields Instrument (EFI), Spacecraft Attitude in GSM coordinates
ReleaseDate
2020-07-07 21:15:01Z
Description

The the Polar spacecraft positive spin axis direction vector (normalized to magnitude 1), in GSM coordinates.

Acknowledgement
The user will acknowledge, in any publication which uses POLAR EFI data, the instrument PI.
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Forrest.S.Mozer
2.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Jack.B.Vernetti
PriorIDs
spase://VWO/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/S_C_GSM_Attitude
spase://VSPO/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/SC/GSM/Attitude/PT600S
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
Availability
Online
AccessRights
Open
AccessURL
URL
Description

This URL is the root location of the POLAR EFI archive. It consists of Yearly subdirectories: 1996, 1997, ..., 2008 each of which consists of Monthly subdirectories: 01, 02, ..., 12 The archive files for a given date are located in the corresponding YY/MM subdirectory.

Language
en
Format
CDF
Encoding
None
Acknowledgement
The user will acknowledge, in any publication which uses POLAR EFI data, the instrument PI.
InstrumentIDs
MeasurementType
Ephemeris
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
1996-03-16 00:00:00
StopDate
2008-04-13 24:00:00
Cadence
PT600S
Parameter #1
Name
Time
ParameterKey
TIME_TAG
Description

Data point time-tags which are double precision floating point numbers which represent the number of seconds, UTC, from midnight of the day represented by the file.

Cadence
PT600S
Units
seconds
ValidMin
0.0
ValidMax
86460.0
Support
SupportQuantity
Temporal
Parameter #2
Name
SCAttitudeGSMVector
ParameterKey
DATA_VALUES
Description

Data point vector values which are a triplet of single precision floating point numbers which represent the normalized X,Y,Z components of the GSM spacecraft attitude (i.e. the direction of the spacecraft positive spin axis).

Cadence
PT600S
Units
Numeric
UnitsConversion
1.0
CoordinateSystem
CoordinateRepresentation
Cartesian
CoordinateSystemName
GSM
ValidMin
-1.0
ValidMax
1.0
Support
SupportQuantity
Positional