This data set contains data products for
        93,397 images obtained by the Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) of the Near 
        Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission during the orbital phase at  
        asteroid 433 Eros. The data products include geometric and geophysical
        information for each pixel. The data products are in the form of      
        backplanes, stored in the FITS image format. There is one backplane   
        file for each MSI image. Each of the MSI backplane files is a 16-band 
        image cube. The bands of the cube contain the information detailed    
        below calculated for the center of each pixel:                        
        1: Pixel values (I/F) of the original FITS images delivered to the PDS
        by the NEAR team [Murchie et al., 2001], linearly resampled to rectify
        the image by squaring the pixels. The original image size is 537 x 244
        pixels and the rectified size is 537 x 412 pixels.                    
        2: x coordinate (kilometers) of the intercept with the surface of the 
        asteroid in body-fixed reference frame                                
        3: y coordinate (kilometers) of the intercept with the surface of the 
        asteroid in body-fixed reference frame                                
        4: z coordinate (kilometers) of the intercept with the surface of the 
        asteroid in body-fixed reference frame                                
        5: latitude (planetocentric, degrees)                                 
        6: longitude (degrees east)                                           
        7: radial distance (kilometers) from the asteroid center of figure    
        8: solar incidence angle (degrees)                                    
        9: emission angle (degrees)                                           
        10: solar phase angle (degrees)                                       
        11: horizontal pixel scale (kilometers)                               
        12: vertical pixel scale (kilometers)                                 
        13: average surface slope relative to gravity (degrees)               
        14: average elevation relative to gravity (meters)                    
        15: average gravitational acceleration (meters/[s^2])                 
        16: average gravitational potential (J/kg)

Eros MSI Images with Geometry Backplanes
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Eros MSI Images with Geometry BackplanesPDS4 Bundle