From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 07:50:22 PDT
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From: Larry Kellogg
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Subject: NASA'S MARS ODYSSEY RELEASES FIRST DATA ARCHIVE TO SCIENTISTS
Good day.
There once was a time, when the date from a probes instruments was
the property of the principal investigator for some time after the
data was returned. This would give the scientist an edge on writing
papers and making new discoveries.
That has changed somewhat with the Discovery type of mission. Raw
data from missions like Lunar Prospector are archived and made
available to the public soon after the mission has begun or shortly
after its end.
http://wufs.wustl.edu/missions/lunarp/
This probably still benefits the community of scientists more than
the general public because you have to have and understanding of just
what the instruments are gathering and how to go about normalizing
and then converting to the raw values to something that has meaning
to the human sense.
http://pds-geophys.wustl.edu/pds/
http://pds-geophys.wustl.edu/pds/lunar_prospector/
Now you can look at information about the Odyssey data sets. So if
you are a research scientist or a student studying Mars you have some
recent raw data available.
Just what you can do with that, well, your mileage may vary. See the
link at Washington University Planetary Data System Geosciences Node.
http://wufs.wustl.edu/missions/odyssey/
--- WHAT'S NEW: October 1, 2002. The first release of Odyssey THEMIS, GRS, MARIE, and SPICE data is available online; see below. This date also marks the debut of the new PDS-D system for searching online data sets. ----Larry ========================================================== The Odyssey data are available through a new online access system established by the Planetary Data System at: http://starbrite.jpl.nasa.gov/pds/
A guide to the Odyssey data sets can be found at the Planetary Data System Geosciences Node at: http://wufs.wustl.edu/missions/odyssey
Additional information about the 2001 Mars Odyssey is available on the Internet at: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/ ========================================================== Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:10:27 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov Subject: NASA'S MARS ODYSSEY RELEASES FIRST DATA ARCHIVE TO SCIENTISTS Sender: owner-press-release@lists.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington October 1, 2002 (Phone: 202/358-1727)
Mary Hardin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-0344)
RELEASE: 02-187
NASA'S MARS ODYSSEY RELEASES FIRST DATA ARCHIVE TO SCIENTISTS
NASA has 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.
The Odyssey data are available through a new online access system established by the Planetary Data System at: http://starbrite.jpl.nasa.gov/pds/
The Odyssey data release coupled with the availability of this new system mark a significant improvement in access to data from solar system exploration missions. Beginning today, validated data from all Odyssey instruments will be available for search and retrieval immediately upon delivery to the Planetary Data System.
The system will soon integrate data sets from all Mars missions so researchers can obtain all the data they need at a "one-stop shopping" Internet site. A guide to the Odyssey data sets can be found at the Planetary Data System Geosciences Node at: http://wufs.wustl.edu/missions/odyssey
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington. Investigators at Arizona State University in Tempe, the University of Arizona in Tucson and NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, operate the science instruments. Additional science partners are located at the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and at Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL.
Additional information about the 2001 Mars Odyssey is available on the Internet at: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/
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