Welcome to the Rings Node's

New Horizons at Jupiter

Information Page

Introduction

The New Horizons mission obtained data using a variety of instruments during the Jupiter encounter and for approximately 90 days following Jupiter closest approach. The bulk of the rings relevant New Horizons data was obtained by the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), a high resolution optical camera.

While all of the New Horizons data are available from the PDS Small Bodies Node (SBN), the Rings Node maintains duplicate copies of all of the LORRI data and supporting SPICE files from the Jupiter encounter. The raw data is provided in a single volume while the same data in calibrated form is divided into three volumes. SPICE data is provided in a separate volume.

Key Documents

The information contained in the SOC Instrument Interface Control Document (ICD), and in the documents submitted for publication in Space Science Reviews (SSR) in 2007, is crucial to understanding the data in this archive. As such, the producers of this archive have included the best possible versions of these documents in the DOCUMENT subdirectory of each volume.

As a minimum, users of the LORRI data should review the following documents:

• AAREADME. Provides an overview of the data set.
• ICD. Contains general information and details of the LORRI instrument and data.
• LORRI SSRThe LORRI article submitted to SSR.

For information on the geometry data included in the labels and metadata, see the

• quaterion description file and its associated label file.

The meta data provided in the original INDEX.TAB files is very limited. We have produced a single, expanded index file covering the entire calibrated data set (volumes NHJULO_2001, NHJULO_2002, and NHJULO_2003).

• expanded index file and its associated label file.

All of the LORRI data can be accessed directly from the table below.

We also provide browse images for all of the LORRI observations.

• Clicking on the VOLUME_ID will allow you to browse the volume.
• To download an entire volume, right click on that volume's "Bundled" link in the second column.
  The bundled volumes are provided in .tar.gz format. For information on opening files of this type, click here.
• Browse images for the calibrated files can be viewed by following the "Browse Images" link for that volume.

New Horizons Links

In additon to the Rings Node, the following PDS Nodes have New Horizons web pages.

• Atmospheres Node
• Small Bodies Node (SBN)

Information on the spacecraft and its instruments is available from the New Horizons Mission Home page.