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Signatures

External signatures File extension: img
File extension: vic
File extension: vicar
Internal signatures
Name VICAR Planetary File Format
Description Header ASCII: 'LBLSIZE=n, followed by FORMAT='(BYTE|HALF|FULL|REAL|DOUB|COMP|COMPLEX|WORD|LONG)' The label is always located at the beginning of the file.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 4C424C53495A453D[30:39]{15}464F524D41543D27(48414C46|42595445|46554C4C|5245414C|444F5542|434F4D50|434F4D504C4558|574F5244|4C4F4E47)27
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