Gridview grids

Gridview grids

Available Grids in EGDR (.IMG) format:

The official download site for "raw" MOLA grids is located at:

Planetary Data System MOLA MEGDR download page

This site has the MOLA Mission Experiment Gridded Data Records (MEGDRs) available at various resolutions. The Gridview user will need to use the "Load EGDR (IMG) Grid" option under the "File" tab to load a grid. The data comes as a pair of files. The “.img” file contains the actual gridded data and an associated ".lbl" file contains meta-data information that explains the contents of the ".img" file.

After the user selects "Load EGDR (IMG) Grid" a file selection window will pop-up for the user to select an ".img" file. After that, another windowl pops-up that requires the user to fill in five pieces of information needed by Gridview to accurately place the data geographically. This information can be found in the ".lbl" file.

The questions and the associated ".lbl" tags are:

Min (East) Lon: WESTERNMOST_LONGITUDE
Max (East) Lon: EASTERNMOST_LONGITUDE
Max Lat: MAXIMUM_LATITUDE
Min Lat: MINIMUM_LATITUDE
Pixel per degree: MAP_RESOLUTION

Once the user enters the values and clicks "Accept" the grid will display in the main Gridview window.

Available Grids in IDL 'Save' (.sav) format:

(Download by right clicking with "Save link as" option or shift+Button1)

mola_1.sav - One degree grid (.26 Mb)
(One pixel per degree, 1.0 spacing) 360 x 180

mola_02.sav - Half degree grid (1 Mb)
(Two pixels per degree, .5 spacing) 720 x 360

mola_04.sav - Quarter degree grid (4.1 Mb)
(Four pixels per degree, .25 spacing) 1440 x 720

An example high resolution MOLA grid in GMT (.GRD) format:

(Right-Click and Save Link Target As... for the following link)
30s_0_300e_330e.grd a 30 degree by 30 degree region (153 Mb)
(128x256 pixels per degree) 4481 x 8961



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Last modified on May 23, 2006