Description

The Context Camera (CTX) is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) acquiring grayscale images at 6 meters per pixel scale over a swath 30 kilometers wide. CTX provides context images for the MRO HiRISE and CRISM observations, is used to monitor changes occurring on the planet, and acquires stereo pairs of selected, critical science targets.

MarsSI can calibrate and reproject this data.

Data filename scheme

The CTX files have names like P16_007430_1783_XN_01S083W.

References

• CTX instrument description website: http://www.msss.com/all_projects/mro-ctx.php
• CTX instrument description paper: Malin et al., (2007), Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, E05S04, doi: 10.1029/2006JE002808.