This page highlights available planetary data sites and repositories. This list is not exhaustive and will be updated as new resources are developed or decommissioned.
If a resource meets the criteria for listing (see below), please contact hq-pde@mail.nasa.gov. Being listed on this site does not imply an endorsement by NASA or the U.S. Government.
Featured Planetary Data Sites
PDS
The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives planetary data products from NASA's planetary missions, ground-based studies, and laboratory experiments.
Astromat
The Astromaterials Data System (Astromat) is an open archive for accessing, publishing, and preserving analytical laboratory data from planetary astromaterial samples.
All Planetary Data Sites and Repositories
| Title | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Planetary Data System Planetary Plasma Interactions Node | The Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI) Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data related to the interaction of solar and planetary winds with planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres, and surfaces. |
https://pds-ppi.igpp.ucla.edu/ |
| Planetary Data System Ring-Moon Systems Node | The Ring-Moon Systems (RMS) Node of NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) archives, catalogs, and distributes scientific data sets relevant to planetary systems, including planets, rings, and moons and the ways they interact. |
https://pds-rings.seti.org/ |
| Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node | The Small Bodies Node (SBN) of the Planetary Data System specializes in the archiving, cataloging, and distributing of scientific data sets relevant to asteroids, comets and interplanetary dust. |
https://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/ |
| Planetary Data System Thermal Emission Imaging System Data Node | The Planetary Data System (PDS) Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Data Node provides access to imaging data from the THEMIS instrument aboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. |
https://viewer.mars.asu.edu/viewer/themis#T=0 |
| Planetary Data System Thermal Emission Spectrometer Data Node | A subnode of the Planetary Data System (PDS) Geosciences Node, the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) Data Node hosts data from the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer instrument. |
http://tes.asu.edu/data_archive.html |
| Planetary Geodesy Data Archive | The Planetary Geodesy Data Archive (PGDA) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center provides measurements of the gravity, interior dynamics, magnetic fields, and positions in space of planetary bodies. |
https://pgda.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
| Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Infrared Spectroscopic Database | The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Infrared Spectroscopic Database (PAHdb) at NASA’s Ames Research Center contains laboratory-measured spectra for over 4,000 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which can aid the study of planetary surfaces. |
https://www.astrochemistry.org/pahdb/ |
| Presolar Grain Database | Hosted by the Laboratory for Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, the Presolar Grain Database collects isotopic measurements of the composition of available presolar grain samples. |
https://presolar.physics.wustl.edu/presolar-grain-database/ |
| Registry of Open Data on AWS | NASA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to create the Registry of Open Data (RODA), which makes high-value NASA science datasets, including planetary datasets, openly available via the AWS cloud. |
https://science.data.nasa.gov/about/aws-open-data-registry/ |
| Reflectance Experiment Laboratory Spectral Database | The Reflectance Experiment Laboratory (RELAB) Spectral Database provides open access to spectral reflectance data collected from geological samples by the NASA RELAB facility at Brown University. |
https://sites.brown.edu/relab/relab-spectral-database/ |
Criteria for Listing
Data sites and repositories are considered for listing on this website based on the following criteria:
- Funded by the NASA Planetary Science Division, or funded by another division within the NASA Science Mission Directorate and significantly useful to planetary scientists.
- Data products that are not NASA-funded may be included if deemed significantly scientifically useful and available at no cost.
- Resource is publicly available.
- Desired criteria include:
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is provided so this resource can be cited and the author given proper credit.
- Data (and software, if relevant) license is clearly indicated.
- Clear guidance on use is available, including documentation regarding how the dataset was generated and how to cite the dataset.
- Contact information is provided for questions or support.
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