This MER_volcanic_vents_image_list_readme.txt file was generated on 2021-04-2021


GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: MER_volcanic_vents_image_list.pdf

2. Author Information
	A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
		Name: David L. Pegg
		Institution: The Open University
		Email: David.L.Pegg@Open.ac.uk

	B. Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: David A. Rothery
		Institution: The Open University
		Email: David.Rothery@open.ac.uk

	D. Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Matt R. Balme
		Institution: The Open University

	D. Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Susan J. Conway
		Institution: CNRS



3. Date of data collection: 2018-2019

4. Geographic location of data collection: 
This data covers a list of images from 300 locations over the Planet Mercury.

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: 

David Pegg was funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under grant ST/R504993/1, and the Open University’s Space Research Area. DAR and MJB receive support from European Commission Grant 776276 (Planmap) for Mercury mapping. SJC is grateful for financial support from the French Space Agency CNES for her BepiColombo work. The authors declare no conflicts of interest 


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: 
CC BY 4.0

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: 
This is linked to a paper “Explosive Vent Sites on Mercury: Commonplace Multiple Eruptions and their Implications” submitted to Icarus.


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: 


5. Was data derived from another source? yes 
This table lists image titles captured by NASA’s MESSENGER Spacecraft 
The image data can be retrieved from:
https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/volumes/mess.html
or
https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/mercury/index.aspx


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: 
MER_volcanic_vents_image_list.pdf

2. Relationship between files, if important: 

3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: 



METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
This is a list of images produced by using a list of volcanic vents (see List of vents in the same data collection using ArcGIS to locate images captured by NASA’s MESSENGER mission which have imaged these vents.

2. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: 
ArcGIS 10.8

3. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 
David L Pegg


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: MER_volcanic_vents_image_list.pdf


2 Columns: 
Vent ID: the id of vents (see “Locations and Classifications of Vents on Mercury” for vent information)

Image name: The image name produced by NASA.