The MeSS data used in "A spectral study of the Caloris basin on Mercury and the origin of associated volcanic smooth plains"

This document contains the dataset used in the work «  A spectral study of the Caloris basin on Mercury and the origin of associated volcanic smooth plains ». In this study the authors use NASA/MESSENGER/MASCS/VIRS DDR data available at the PDS GeosciencesNode of Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA. The dataset used contains the latest calibration provided by the MESSENGER science team. (https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/mercury/pagehelp/Content/Missions_Instruments/MESSENGER/MASCS/VIRS/Intro.htm).

The present document contains VIRS DDR reflectance spectra from PDS corrected by the methodology developed by Besse et al., 2015 (https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JE004819). Moreover, the document contains the ref_id, the latitude [deg] and longitude [deg] of every footprints used in «  A spectral study of the Caloris basin on Mercury and the origin of associated volcanic smooth plains » . All spectral parameters can be calculated directly with these spectra.