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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE9"> <head> <title>Welcome to the Planetary Data System</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="google-site-verification" content="cvIsjQqyHkboRduTpBWbeK09KBShH5qSXKwFi0wltIk" /> <link href="/css/main.css?v=20221014" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" /> <script src="/scripts/email.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/popWindow.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit' async defer></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/feedback/css/feedback.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <script src="/feedback/js/modernizr-custom.js"></script> <script src="/feedback/js/config.js"></script> <script src="/feedback/js/feedback.js"></script> <script src="/pds-app-bar/pds-app-bar.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="/pds-app-bar/pds-app-bar.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></link> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" crossorigin="anonymous"/> <script type="text/javascript"> $(fixEmail); </script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-33523145-1"></script> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-T8PNBVMXSM"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-33523145-1'); gtag('config', 'G-T8PNBVMXSM'); </script> </head> <body class="sidebar home menu_home menu_item_home_home">  <div id="header-container">  <a id="logo" href="/" onclick="this.blur()" > <img src="/images/nasa_logo(280x280).png" alt="NASA logo"> </a> <div id="menu-container">  <div id="menu"> <a class="nonvisual" name="mainMenu"></a> <h2 class="nonvisual">Main menu</h2> <ul> <li id="home"><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li id="data"><a href="/datasearch/data-search/">Data Search</a></li> <li id="tools"><a href="/tools/about/">Tools</a></li> <li id="datastandards"><a href="/datastandards/about/">Data Standards</a></li> </ul> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div id="submenu"> <div id="submenu_home"> <h2 class="nonvisual">Menu: Home</h2> <ul> <li id="home_home"><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li id="home_about"><a href="/home/about/">About PDS</a></li> <li id="home_data_users"><a href="/home/users/">Data Users</a></li> <li id="home_data_proposers"><a href="/home/proposers/">Data Proposers</a></li> <li id="home_data_providers"><a href="/home/providers/">Data Providers</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div>  <ul id="header-links"> <li><a href="http://www.nasa.gov">NASA Portal</a></li> <li><a href="/site-help.shtml">Site Help</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/contact.shtml">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/feedback.cfm">Feedback</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div id="sidebar"> <div class="sidebarSection"> <h2>Announcements</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/home/community-announcement.shtml">Community Announcement</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="sidebarSection"> <h2>New Releases</h2> <ul class="news"> <li>April 3, 2025 <a href="https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mars2020/">Mars 2020 Mission Release 12</a></li> <li>April 1, 2025 <a href="/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20250401.shtml">Odyssey Data Release 91</a></li> <li>March 31, 2025 <a href="/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20250331.shtml">aperiodic PDS data releases in March 2025</a></li>  <li><a href="/datasearch/subscription-service/data-release-calendar.shtml">Data Release Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-Release.shtml">Previous Releases</a></li> <li><a href="/datasearch/subscription-service/top.cfm">Subscribe to new releases</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="sidebarSection"> <h2>PDS Nodes</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/">Atmospheres (ATM)</a></li> <li><a href="https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/">Cartography and Imaging Sciences (IMG)</a></li> <li><a href="http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/">Geosciences (GEO)</a></li> <li><a href="https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/">Navigational & Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF)</a></li> <li><a href="https://pds-ppi.igpp.ucla.edu/">Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI)</a></li> <li><a href="https://pds-rings.seti.org/">Ring-Moon Systems (RMS)</a></li> <li><a href="https://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/">Small Bodies (SBN)</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="content"> <h1>Welcome to the PDS</h1> <div id="annual-survey" class="banner"> New Beta Site is Live! We are thrilled to announce the beta release of our newly redesigned <a href="https://pds.mcp.nasa.gov/portal/">NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) website</a>! The start of a re-imagined portal for an integrated, streamlined user experience, providing easier access to data, tools, and essential information for planetary science research. Your input is invaluable as we continue to refine the PDS website, ensuring it meets the needs of our diverse community. We look forward to sharing this exciting development with you and hearing your thoughts. Please use the Give Feedback links throughout the site to provide us your inputs. Stay tuned for further updates and thank you for your continued support of the NASA Planetary Data System! Checkout the new site here: <a href="https://pds.mcp.nasa.gov/portal/">https://pds.mcp.nasa.gov/portal/</a> </div>  <div style="border-top: 1px solid white; position: relative;">  The Planetary Data System (PDS) is a long-term archive of digital data products returned from NASA's planetary missions, and from other kinds of flight and ground-based data acquisitions, including laboratory experiments. But it is more than just a facility - the archive is actively managed by planetary scientists to help ensure its usefulness and usability by the world wide planetary science community. Archive submissions are prepared by researchers under the guidance of PDS personnel. All products are peer-reviewed, well-documented, and easily accessible via a system of online catalogs that are organized by planetary disciplines. Archived products are available on-line. When needed, PDS provides users access to staff to help with data selection. PDS also provides a variety of tools useful in producing, obtaining and using archived data. There is no cost associated with acquiring PDS archived data or tools or in getting reasonable amounts of PDS help. All PDS archived data may be exported outside of the United States under the U.S. Government's Technology and Software Publicly Available (TSPA) classification. To learn more about PDS and the nodes, go to <a href="/home/about/">About the PDS</a>. Below are links to important information for the various categories of PDS users. <h3><a href="/home/users/">Data Users</a> (Researchers, Educators, Students and the General Public)</h3> Data Users include researchers, students, and educators who are interested in obtaining, manipulating, and understanding PDS data products. They intend to locate data products, find tools to work with those data products, and understand how those data products are formatted and structured. Some information in this collection may also be of interest to the general public. <h3><a href="/home/proposers/">Data Proposers</a></h3> Data Proposers intend to submit a proposal for NASA funding, with the proposal including the intent to archive data in the PDS. The proposal might be prepared as part of a mission proposal, or as an individual researcher responding to a data analysis program call. A data proposer is looking for information on how to include PDS archiving in their proposal. A successful Data Proposer will later become a Data Provider. <h3><a href="/home/providers/">Data Providers</a></h3> Data Providers intend to submit data to PDS for peer review and subsequent archiving. 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