[PDF] Nasas Planetary Data System eBook

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Category : Planets
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Features the Planetary Data System (PDS) in Pasadena, California, which archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. PDS is sponsored by NASA's Office of Space Science. Links to sections on the Mars Explorer, the PDS Clementine Navigator, the Saturn Ring Plane Crossings, the Welcome to the Planets educational resource, the Magellan Image browser and information on PDS organizational nodes. Includes the PDS Data Set Catalog, a directory of new data releases, the PDS Atmospheres Data Sets, the Clementine catalog of image data, and the Magellan Standard Products Catalog. Provides access to the Image Retrieval and Processing System (IRPS) and to home pages for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA.

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Presents the Geosciences Node of NASA's Planetary Data System, based at the Department of Earth and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, which archives and distributes data related to the study of the surfaces and interiors of planetary bodies. Contains information on the purpose of the Geosciences Node, available datasets and electronic services, subnodes, references, Geosciences Node personnel, and more.

Author : Linda Billings
Publisher : National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Communications NASA History Division
Page : pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : 9781626830530

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"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus in 1962, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory organized a symposium. "Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have learned about the other bodies of the solar system and the processes by which we have learned it. Symposium organizers asked authors to address broad topics relating to the history of solar system exploration such as various flight projects, the development of space science disciplines, the relationship between robotic exploration and human spaceflight, the development of instruments and methodologies for scientific exploration, as well as the development of theories about planetary science, solar system origins and implications for other worlds. The papers in this volume provide a richly textured picture of important developments - and some colorful characters - in a half century of solar system exploration. A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, human resources, commitment, competition and cooperation, and the "faster, better, cheaper" era of solar system exploration"--

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309114926

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The NASA Authorization Act of 2005 directed the agency to ask the NRC to assess the performance of each division in the NASA Science directorate at five-year intervals. In this connection, NASA requested the NRC to review the progress the Planetary Exploration Division has made in implementing recommendations from previous, relevant NRC studies. This book provides an assessment of NASA's progress in fulfilling those recommendations including an evaluation how well it is doing and of current trends. The book covers key science questions, flight missions, Mars exploration, research and analysis, and enabling technologies. Recommendations are provided for those areas in particular need of improvement.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2017-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309458706

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The Research and Analysis (R&A) program managed by NASA's Planetary Science Division (PSD), supports a broad range of planetary science activities, including the analysis of data from past and current spacecraft; laboratory research; theoretical, modeling, and computational studies; geological and astrobiological fieldwork in planetary analog environments on Earth; geological mapping of planetary bodies; analysis of data from Earth- and space-based telescopes; and development of flight instruments and technology needed for future planetary science missions. The primary role of the PSD R&A program is to address NASA's strategic objective for planetary science and PSD's science goals. Recently, PSD reorganized the R&A program to provide better alignment with the strategic goals for planetary sciences. The major changes in the R&A program involved consolidating a number of prior program elements, many of which were organized by subdiscipline, into a smaller number of thematic core research program elements. Despite numerous efforts by PSD to communicate the rationale for the reorganization and articulate clearly the new processes, there has been significant resistance from the planetary science community and concerns in some sectors regarding the major realignment of funding priorities. Review of NASA's Planetary Science Division's Restructured Research and Analysis Programs examines the new R&A program and determines if it appropriately aligns with the agency's strategic goals, supports existing flight programs, and enables future missions. This report explores whether any specific research areas or subdisciplinary groups that are critical to NASA's strategic objectives for planetary science and PSD's science goals are not supported appropriately in the current program or have been inadvertently disenfranchised through the reorganization.