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Welcome to the PDS

The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by NASA's Office of Space Science to ensure the long-term usability of data, to stimulate research, to facilitate data access, and to support correlative analysis.

PDS Hot Topics!

• New Data Releases
• Welcome to the Planets (Educational Resource)

PDS Organizations

Atmospheres

Central Node

Geosciences

Planetary Plasma Interactions Node

Small Bodies Node

Planetary Imaging Node

Rings Node

Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) Node

Catalogs and On-Line Data

• Introduction
• Central Node
  • PDS Data Set Catalog - Provides high-level information about PDS data sets and an ordering capability.
  • PDS Atmospheres Data Sets - Lists Atmospheres data sets available on-line at the Central Node and provides ftp access to them.
• Atmospheres Node
  • Planetary Atmospheres Node Data Analysis Software (PANDA) (login as "pds_remote" - A demonstration of a system to locate, manipulate, and plot data from data sets resident in the planetary atmospheres database.
• Geosciences Node
  • Magellan Standard Products Catalog (login as "mgnuser" with password "?magellan") - Catalog for locating and ordering Magellan MIDRs, BIDRs, ARCDRs, ALT-EDRs, GXDRs, and LOSAPDRs.
  • Image Retrieval and Processing System (IRPS) (login as "pds_remote") - System provides on-line access to high- and detailed-level catalogs of data products from planetary missions relevant to the geosciences discipline.
• Planetary Imaging Node
  • Imaging Node On-Line Catalog - Catalog for locating and ordering Viking and Magellan EDR data.
  • Magellan Image Browser - Access to all of the full resolution MIDRs from the Magellan Mission.
  • Viking Lander Image Browser - Access to all the raw image data from the Viking Landers.
• Planetary Plasma Interactions Node
  • Planetary Plasma Interactions Access to Data - Catalog for locating and accessing on-line fields and particles data.

Other Services

• Introduction
• Central Node
  • Welcome to the Planets (Educational Resource) - Collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
  • PDS Software Inventory - Listing of software available within the Planetary Science Community and under the auspices of PDS.
  • Accessing Planetary CD-ROMs - Provides software used to access the PDS jukebox which contains a selection of approximately 220 Planetary CD-ROMs.
• Small Bodies Node
  • Shoemaker-Levy 9 Bulletin Board - Contains a number of files of interest to researchers studying the collision of Comet SL-9 with Jupiter in July of 1994.

Submitting Data to the PDS

• Introduction
• Full-Text Search of Documentation
• PDS Data Preparation Workbook
• PDS Standards Reference
• PDS Data Dictionary (ASCII text file for downloading)

Related Pages

Below are WWW resources related to planetary data or the Planetary Data System. These Web resources are not maintained by the Planetary Data System but are listed here for your convenience.

• About the Data Distribution Laboratory
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• NSSDC's Planetary Page
• NASA

Web Page Curator: Jean Mortellaro, JPL

Responsible NASA Official: Susan K. McMahon, PDS Project Manager, JPL

Contact Information: Tina Pauro, PDS Operator, (818)306-6130, Fax: (818) 306-6929, pds_operator@jplpds.jpl.nasa.gov

Last Updated 4/14/95