Welcome to MESSENGERuvvs’s documentation¶
MESSENGERuvvs provides an interface to reduced MESSENGER ( MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) MASCS (Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer) UVVS (UltraViolet and Visible Spectrometer) data and to the nexoclom Neutral Exospheres and Cloud Model. See McClintock et al. Space Science Reviews, 131, 481-521, 2007, and Solomon et al., Mercury - The View After MESSENGER, Cambridge University Press, 2019, Ch 14-15, for more details on the MESSENGER observations and models.
Installation¶
MESSENGERuvvs can be installed with pip:
$ pip install MESSENGERuvvs
The MESSENGERuvvs data is not provided with this software package. I was not responsible for reducing it, and I’m not sure who I’m allowed to distribute it to. Please contact me if you are interested in this. MESSENGER MASCS/UVVS data is available from the Planetary Data System, although in a different format. We can probably work on a way to get that data in the format used here if necessary.
Reporting Issues¶
This project is hosted on github at MESSENGERuvvs. Please report bugs or make comments there.