%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%% Description of files MARSIS_blackout_list.txt and SHARAD_blackout_list.txt %%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% This data set contains the time when the radars Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) %% on board Mars Express and the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suffered total or partial %% blackouts when sounding the surface of Mars. %% If this dataset is used, please also acknowledge the following paper together with this dataset: --> M. Lester, B. Sanchez-Cano, D. Potts, R. Lillis, M. Cartacci, F. Bernardini, R. Orosei, M. Perry, N. Putzig, B. Campbell, P.-L. Blelly, S. Milan, H. Opgenoorth, O.Witasse, Eleven Years of Radar Blackouts at Mars: Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and MAVEN Observations, under review at Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics (awaiting for DOI). %% For information, contact Prof Mark Lester, University of Leicester, UK [mle@leicester.ac.uk] or %% Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, University of Leicester, UK [bscmdr1@leicester.ac.uk] %% Description of the files - MARSIS_blackout_list.txt -Decription: Mars Express-MARSIS blackout list, when MARSIS was operating in subsurface mode -Columns: 1- day 2- month 3- year 4- hour 5- min 6- sec 7- total_blakcout(indicated as 1) 8- partial_blackout(indicated as 1) - SHARAD_blackout_list.txt -Decription: Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter -SHARAD blackout list -Columns: 1- day 2- month 3- year 4- hour 5- min 6- sec 7- total_blakcout(indicated as 1) 8- partial_blackout(indicated as 1) %% Acknowledgments: This dataset has been created in the frame of UK-STFC grant ST/S000429/1.