NASA Releases First Archive Of Mars Odyssey Science Data

JPL ^ | 8 Oct 02 | staff

[RightWhale]

NASA Releases First Archive Of Mars Odyssey Science Data

Pasadena - Oct 08, 2002

NASA last week released the first set of data taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to the Planetary Data System, which will now make the information available to research scientists through a new online distribution and access system.

"This release is a major milestone for Mars scientists worldwide, since the first validated data from our instruments are now available to the entire scientific community," said Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, the Odyssey project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

"There are fundamentally new kinds of information in these data sets, including day and night infrared images, maps of hydrogen in the soil, and radiation hazard data for future Mars missions."

The information includes the first six weeks of mapping data through the end of March, as well as the observations made during the cruise phase to Mars.

The archive consists of formatted instrument data from the gamma-ray spectrometer and high-energy neutron spectrometer; Mars maps from the neutron detectors; about 800 visible and infrared images taken by the camera system; and radiation measurements from the Martian radiation environment experiment.

New data will be released to the science community every three months

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[RightWhale]

The website was not provided in the article. This is the website for anyone who wishes to make note on favorites

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/

Jet Propulsion Lab Planetary Data System

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[JPJones]

Lot's of controversy surrounding Nasa's data:

http://www.marsnews.com

[blam]

It's hard to get a good thread going these days, huh?

[JPJones]

bump

[RightWhale]

Someday someone will be glad the planetary data site address was provided on FR. While there might be a lot of lay scientists at FR, working through actual data as an amateur isn't for everyone. There will be someone someday who makes the effort, and it will be a considerable effort, and discovers something in the data of vast importance. Won't be me, though, got other fish to fry.

[blam]

" Won't be me, though, got other fish to fry."

Ditto.