LADEE Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX)
Status: Archived
LDEX is an instrument on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment
Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft designed to study the lunar dust environment
by measuring the physical properties of the particles impacting the
instrument target during the mission. This archive includes reduced,
calibrated, and derived LDEX data from the full LADEE mission, including the
extended mission, covering the period Nov. 21, 2013 through April 18, 2014.
Housekeeping data are also included.
| LADEE LDEX (urn:nasa:pds:ladee_ldex, version 2.0) | Browse | Download (551 Mb) |
To view PDS4 xml-labelled data products, including LADEE LDEX, use the Small Bodies Node PDS4 Viewer.
Links to documents in the archive bundle:
- Bundle readme file - an overview of the contents of the bundle
- LDEX Software Interface Specification (SIS) - contains a detailed specification of the data and calibration, as well as a description of the LDEX instrument.
- LADEE spacecraft description
- LADEE mission description
Available from the PDS Atmospheres Node
LADEE Archive Page:- Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS)
- UV-Vis Spectrometer (UVS)
- SPICE
Use the following citation to reference this data set:
"Szalay, J.James, D. LADEE Lunar Dust Experiment. urn:nasa:pds:ladee_ldex. NASA Planetary Data System, 2024. 10.26033/06sf-na65
Superseded Versions: Show
| LADEE LDEX (urn:nasa:pds:ladee_ldex, version 1.2) | Browse | Download (528 Mb) |
| LADEE LDEX (urn:nasa:pds:ladee_ldex, version 1.1) | Browse | Download (528 Mb) |
| LADEE LDEX (urn:nasa:pds:ladee_ldex, version 1.0) | Browse | Download (498 Mb) |
Modification history:
Version 1.0
Review date: 2014-06-30
Bundle generation date: 2015-04-09
Schema version: 1.1.0.1
Contents: This version contains the reduced and calibrated data from the
LADEE nominal and extended missions (though 2014-04-18).
Version 1.1
Review date: 2015-06-09
Bundle generation date: 2015-07-01
Schema version: 1.1.0.1
Modifications:
- The derived data collection was reviewed and added to the bundle
- The SIS and other documentation were updated to cover the derived data
product
Version 1.2
Review date: No external review for this minor update. Bundle was
reviewed internally by SBN and EN.
Bundle generation date: 2016-11-16
Schema version: 1.6.0.0
Modifications:
- Updated to conform to schema version 1.6.0.0
- Corrected an error in the labelling of the repeating fields (items)
- Added schema locations to the xml prolog for each label
- Removed unused namespaces
- Corrected other minor label errors
- Converted SIS document to be compliant with PDF/A
Version 2.0
Review date: No external review for this minor update. Bundle was
reviewed internally by SBN and Atmospheres nodes.
Bundle generation date: 2024-02-23
Schema version: 1.20.0.0
Modifications:
- UVersion 2.0 updates the bundle to IM 1.20.0.0 and corrects minor label errors.