Lunar Prospector Magnetometer Calibrated Data Bundle - Errata
This document describes known errors or deficiencies in the Lunar Prospector
Magnetometer (NASA Level 4) Calibrated Data Collection.
This bundle was produced for the Planetary Data System (PDS) at the Planetary
Plasma Interactions (PPI) node.
For questions or problems regarding this bundle, please contact the PDS/PPI
operator:
Email pds_operator@igpp.ucla.edu
These data were originally archived in the following PDS3 data sets:
LP-L-MAG-4-LUNAR-FIELD-TS-V1.0 (https://doi.org/10.17189/1519723)
LP-L-MAG-4-SUMM-LUNARCRDS-5SEC-V1.0 (https://doi.org/10.17189/1519724)
These data were originally archived under following PDS3 volumes:
LP_1201, LP_1202, LP_1203
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General Comments
There appear to be errors in the Level 2 LP MAG data including
differences in magnitudes of the field vectors between different
coordinate systems. Users of the data should take into account the
possibility of such errors.
The data in the Lunar Field collection:
(urn:nasa:pds:lp-mag-calibrated:data-lunarfield), archived after detrending,
should only be used for studying crustal magnetic fields. The east, north,
and radial version is the best one to use. If one needs to get the original
magnetometer data including long-wavelength external fields as well as
crustal fields, then one should go to a different data set (Level 1?). Note:
The detrending of the data was done after the data were transformed into
the various coordinate systems. As a result the values removed from the
original time series data may differ slightly.
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