ESSE 2030 Lab 5: A Grand Tour of the PDS 

Arinze Anozie 
 
Activity 1 
● The Viking Lander 1 had one instrument the camera which is responsible for 3542 images on the 
PDS. 
● 38 images were taken on the 34th Martin day. This was found by setting the range of the ​Planet Day 
Number​ from 34 to 34 under the L​ anded Mission Constraints 
● 12b026 is a grayscale picture depicting the rough and rocky of the surface of mars. 
● When the .sur is opened in a text editor, a set of parameters are visible which are followed by a set of 
random characters that I assume is the actual image data. 
● The image was taken on 1976-08-24T06:46:41Z Earth Time or 12.33 local time on the 34th 
martian day of the mission. 
● The resolution of the image is 230 by 512 pixels. 
 
Activity 2 
Mission  Spacecraft  Instrument  Year Day (Earth) 

Cassini-Huygens  Cassini Orbiter  Imaging Science  2005-339 

Subsystem Narrow 
Angle 

First Image of Sequence 

Image Name  SCLOCK 

N1512447346_1  1512447346.122 

End Image of Sequence 

Image Name  SCLOCK 

N1512449562_6  1512449562.118 

Image of Fullest Partial Eclipse 

Image Name  SCLOCK 

N1512448182_1  1512448182.118 
 
Rhea was determined to be orbiting Dione based on the simple fact that the detailed image headers 
of these images indicated Target Name and Description parameters to be Rhea. Intiutively, it makes 
sense that when an eclipse is being captured, the target should be the eclipsing satellite and not the 
eclipsed satellite. Hence a quick google search of the term “​rhea eclipse of dione​” brings up the NASA 
page (https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/606/) of the Cassini Legacy which confirms this 
intuition.