Hands-on session on the PSA.

Exercise 1

How many images are available on the PSA from Mars satellites?

The solution to the exercise can be found here.

Exercise 2

Use the PSA Classical User Interface to query the crater named Pollack for the nadir channel of the HRSC instrumemt flown on Mars Express.

1. Look at the quicklook image and download all related documentation related to this data product.
2. Visualize the footprint of the resulting images on the PSA Map based User Interface.
3. Determine the longitude and latitude boundaries of the resulting images.
4. download the resulting products.

The solution to the exercise can be found here.

Exercise 3

Use the PSA Classical User Interface to query OMEGA and HRSC data for the volcano Olympus Mons.

1. How many data products are returned for OMEGA and how many for HRSC?

The solution to the exercise can be found here.

Exercise 4

Use the PSA Dataset Browser Interface to download the OMEGA Catalog directory.

1. What kind of information can be found there?
2. Where is located the information about the data in the dataset?
3. What's the difference between MISSION.CAT and INSTHOST.CAT?

The solution to the exercise can be found here.

Exercise 5

Use the PSA Dataset Browser to understand the SPICAM instrument onboard Mars Express. What kind of an instrument is it?

The solution to the exercise can be found here.