NASA’s High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Portfolio provides high-end computing, storage, and associated services to enable NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers to employ large-scale modeling, simulation, and analysis for successful mission outcomes. Image credit: Derek Shaw / NASA Ames.

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at the University of Hawai‘i is a 3.2-meter telescope optimized for infrared observations, with 50% of observing time reserved for studies of solar system objects. Image credit: Ernie Mastroianni.

The Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA’s Ames Research Center is a facility capable of supporting experiments under different planetary atmospheric environments, including Earth, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Titan. Image credit: NASA.

The Planetary Cloud/Aerosol Research Facility (PCARF) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a 10-foot diameter vacuum chamber designed to study planetary aerosol and cloud formation processes in our solar system and exoplanets. Image credit: NASA.

The NASA Reflectance Experiment Laboratory (RELAB), hosted at Brown University, is a multi-user spectroscopy facility that provides cost-free laboratory time to investigators in funded NASA programs. Image Credit: RELAB / Brown University.

The Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies (RGCPS) houses a 6-computer Geographic Information Systems (GIS) laboratory, which provides GIS-ready datasets of the individual planetary bodies and gives assistance to researchers in completing their own work. Image Credit: Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies.

The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)-managed Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds at NASA’s Ames Research Center are helping NASA understand the basic effects of dust exposure in a simulated analog environment. Image credit: NASA.

The FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope) facility in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago offers training, operator-assisted, and independent use of the instrument. Image credit: University of Chicago.

The High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility at The University of Texas at Austin (UTCT) offers a nondestructive technique for visualizing features in the interior of opaque solid objects, and for obtaining information on their 3D geometries and properties. Image Credit: UTCT / University of Texas.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Planetary Photogrammetry Lab (APPL) offers a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and orthorectified image production service to process data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrolink currently houses more than 100,000 lunar and planetary maps, a reference library, a photo and document collection, and a work room for visiting researchers. Image credit: NASA.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Planetary Geologic Mapping Program produces standardized geologic maps of planetary bodies and provides support for planetary science and mapping efforts. Image credit: Planetary Geologic Mapping Program.