yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (04/12/91)
Archive-name: astro/images/space-cdrom/1991-04-12 Archive-directory: ames.arc.nasa.gov:/pub/SPACE/CDROM/ [128.102.18.3] Original-posting-by: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Original-subject: Current CD-ROMs on-line at the Ames SPACE archive Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Well, those CD-ROMs that Ron and I promised are now on-line and working. In fact, we have two drive slaved to the archive server. The first CD-ROM (directory /pub/SPACE/CDROM) currently contains volume 12 of the Voyager data. This disc has complete browse size and some full size images of Jupiter as taken by the Voyagers. I would suggest that you retrieve browse size images (quite a bit smaller) and then figure out which full resolution images you wish to retrieve. Some of the full size images are on other discs which will be rotated in on a weekly basis. The other CD-ROM currently on-line is attached to directory /pub/SPACE/CDROM2. This disc is Voyager CD-ROM 4 and contains images of Saturn. This disc does not contain the browse images (another disc, another week). Software to decompress the images is found in the software directory on each disc. For UNIX systems you need cdcomp.c (compile and run). PCs can use pcdcomp.exe. The /pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE directory on ames contains PC software to display the images on PCs. For UNIX systems, I suggest that you decompress the images into FITS format and then use Jef Poskaner's excellent PBMPlus to convert to your favorite viewing format. Try not to do "mget *" on every directory on the discs. If the network and host load from the archive service becomes excessive we will have to limit the number of ftps that can be run simulatenously. Also note that those CD-ROM drives have other uses and may be pulled off-line at anytime. And in addition, we will not mount CD-ROMs on demand -- we have other jobs to do and can't afford to devote too much time to the archive. On the other hand, if you have problems with archive service, please let me know. Now for the important facts: Archive host: ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3) Login name: ftp Password: anything you like directories: /pub/SPACE/CDROM and /pub/SPACE/CDROM2 Mail archive-server access: Not currently available for binary files (Real Soon Now (tm)). As usual, we would like to thank and credit the following: Dr. Bradford A. Smith, Voyager Team Leader, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary Data System, Jet Propulsion Laboratory National Space Science Data Center, Goddard Space Flight Center Please credit these people when using the data in any report, publication, or formal presentation. And a special thanks to Randall Robinson, Archive Server Manager, Ames Research Center for the use of his computer to house the archives. -Peter Yee yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov ames!yee PS We will put the Magellan and Neptune discs on-line as soon as Ron and I figure out how to get the Sun HSFS driver to understand the file types used on those discs.