| 1 | = Cart ID = |
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| 3 | The Cart ID is a string that can be used to identify a 'shopping cart' of previous data products of interest. |
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| 5 | The VSO Cart stores both the query used to search for data products, and metadata about the selected data products. |
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| 7 | VSO Cart IDs are typically of the form VSO-''INSTANCE''-''DATE''-''SERIAL''. For instance, [http://vso.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi/show_details.pl?search=VSO-SDAC-060217-064 VSO-SDAC-060217-064] is from 2006-Feb-17, on the SDAC VSO instance. |
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| 9 | You can reload a cart by typing its ID into the search box on any VSO instance. Given a VSO Cart ID, you can proceed to [wiki:HowToDownload download the data products] or if they have browse images available, [wiki:HowToMovie view a slideshow of the images]. |
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| 13 | Please Note : Some data providers use version agnostic identifiers. If the data provider applies new calibration to their data, it is possible that the data you obtained from a given Cart ID may have change over time. |