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      <ResourceName>VENUS EXPRESS: ASPERA-4 IMA SWM Solar Wind Moments (CDF)</ResourceName>
      <DOI>https://doi.org/10.24400/802406/kh9f-bc8k</DOI>
      <ReleaseDate>2022-06-06T17:35:00Z</ReleaseDate>
      <Description>This data set contains solar wind parameters derived from ion data from the Ion Mass Analyzer (IMA).</Description>
      <Acknowledgement>
        Please acknowledge the Principal Investigator(s) as well as the ESA Planetary Science Archive and the CDPP (Centre des Données de la Physique des Plasmas) when making a publication using the data you are going to download.
Principal Investigator(s): S. Barabash (IRF, Kiruna, Sweden)	  
	  </Acknowledgement>
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        <Role>PrincipalInvestigator</Role>
      </Contact>
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    <AccessInformation>
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      <Availability>Online</Availability>
      <AccessURL>
        <Name>REGARDS</Name>
        <URL>https://regards.cnes.fr/user/cdpp/modules/1777?sp=DatasetName;q=DatasetName:VEX_ASPERA4_SWM</URL>
        <Description>Access via CNES Data Archive for CDPP</Description>
      </AccessURL>
      <Format>CDF</Format>
    </AccessInformation>
    <ProcessingLevel>Calibrated</ProcessingLevel>
    <InstrumentID>spase://CNES/Instrument/CDPP-Archive/VEX/ASPERA4/IMA</InstrumentID>
    <MeasurementType>EnergeticParticles</MeasurementType>
    <TemporalDescription>
      <TimeSpan>
        <StartDate>2006-07-12T00:00:00Z</StartDate>
        <StopDate>2014-11-27T00:00:00Z</StopDate>
      </TimeSpan>
    </TemporalDescription>
    <ObservedRegion>Venus.Magnetosphere</ObservedRegion>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Density</Name>
      <Description>The plasma density.</Description>
      <Units>cm^-3</Units>
      <UnitsConversion>1e6&gt;m^-3</UnitsConversion>
      <Particle>
        <ParticleType>Ion</ParticleType>
        <Qualifier>Moment</Qualifier>
        <ParticleQuantity>NumberDensity</ParticleQuantity>
      </Particle>
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    <Parameter>
      <Name>Velocity</Name>
      <Description>The plasma velocity.</Description>
      <Units>km/s</Units>
      <UnitsConversion>1e3&gt;m/s</UnitsConversion>
      <Particle>
        <ParticleType>Ion</ParticleType>
        <Qualifier>Moment</Qualifier>
        <ParticleQuantity>Velocity</ParticleQuantity>
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    <Parameter>
      <Name>Temperature</Name>
      <Description>The plasma Temperature.</Description>
      <Units>K</Units>
      <Particle>
        <ParticleType>Ion</ParticleType>
        <Qualifier>Moment</Qualifier>
        <ParticleQuantity>Temperature</ParticleQuantity>
      </Particle>
    </Parameter>
    <Parameter>
      <Name>Quality flag</Name>
      <Description>The flag parameter indicates:  0) No identified issues, 1) Bad fit, likely EUV or SEP contamination, 2) Too low temperature for the instrument to reliably resolve the Maxwellian 3) IMA was running in a badly suited Post-acceleration (PAC) level. 4) Solar wind observed in partially blocked FOV bin. 5) Solar wind density was smaller than 1 PART/CM**3. All entries are averaged from scan-wise moments with flag = 0, but the flag column is kept for possible future use.</Description>
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        <SupportQuantity>DataQuality</SupportQuantity>
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