MARS EXPRESS: Radio Science Solar Conjunction Measurements, 2011

Mars Express spacecraft radio science data collected during a Solar Conjunction event on January 20, 2011. The data covers a specific time window from 16:20:16 to 18:14:57.500 UTC and was gathered by NASA during the extended mission phase from 2010 to 2012.

Use Cases

• Analyze signal propagation effects during solar conjunction based on the described measurement event
• Study atmospheric properties of Mars using radio occultation techniques implied by the dataset type
• Model spacecraft communication interference from solar plasma based on the solar conjunction context
• Validate radio science instrument performance for the Mars Express mission based on the mission phase

Strengths

• Data covers a precise 1-hour 54-minute observation window on 2011-01-20
• Dataset originates from the NASA Mars Express mission, a recognized scientific source
• Temporal coverage of the extended mission phase (2010-2012) is explicitly defined

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Time Range

2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31 (mission phase); 2011-01-20T16:20:16 to 2011-01-20T18:14:57.500 (specific observation)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 12:25:55.730209; freshness should be verified

Geography

Mars (implied by Mars Express mission)