The Context Imager (CTX) will provide grayscale images (500 to 800 nm) up to 40 km wide with a pixel resolution of 6 m.
The CTX is designed to provide context maps for the targeted observations of HiRISE and CRISM.
The optics of CTX consist of a 350 mm focal length Maksutov Cassegrain telescope with a 5,064 pixel wide line array CCD similar to the HiRISE instrument.
CTX is a more precisely defined and functional alternative to CSV, and a lower overhead alternative to many applications of XML.
The CTX data could be as simple as a single CTX record, or as complex as an entire SET of databases, each with multiple tables, its own type, help, and label identifiers, and anything else that COULD be included within a CTX file.
CTX files transported with this must have any non-text fields translated using the \m...; sequences as described in the secondary recommendation.