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The PDS Management Council serves as the technical policy board of the PDS, and provides findings for NASA with respect to planetary science data management, ensures coordination among the nodes, guarantees responsiveness to customer needs, and monitors the appropriate uses of evolving information
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The archive must be complete and be able to stand alone. There is no guarantee that the people who originally worked with and submitted the data to the archive will be available in the future to field questions regarding the data, its calibration or the mission. Therefore, the archive must include
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bytes even if the proprietary software and support ceases to exist. PDS allows figures and illustrations to be included in the archive as individual images. PDS adheres to many other standards including, but not limited to, special directory and file naming conventions and label requirements. Each
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One critical component of the PDS archive is the storage media. The data must be stored effectively and efficiently with no degradation of the data over the archive's lifespan. Therefore, the physical media must have large capacity and must remain readable over many years. PDS is migrating toward
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The main objective of the PDS is to maintain a planetary data archive that will withstand the test of time such that future generations of scientists can access, understand and use preexisting planetary data. The PDS tries to ensure compatibility of the archive by adhering to strict standards of
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The PDS is an active archive that makes available well documented, peer reviewed planetary data to the research community. The data comes from orbital, landed and robotic missions and ground-based support data associated with those missions. It is managed by NASA Headquarters' Planetary Sciences
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NASA and the PDS recently engaged in development of a Roadmap for the period 2017 to 2026. The purpose of the roadmap effort was to outline a strategy for moving forward in planetary data archiving under the auspices of a rapidly growing data volume (nearly 1 petabyte at present), new computing
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good descriptive documentation of how the spacecraft and its instruments worked, how the data were collected and calibrated, and what the data mean. The quality of the documentation is examined during a mission independent PDS peer review.
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Planetary Plasma Interaction (PPI) Node – handles data consisting of the interaction between the solar wind and planetary winds with planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres and surfaces (
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The PDS is composed of 8 nodes, 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes. In addition, there are several subnodes and data nodes whose exact status tends to change over time.
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The format of the data is also important. In general, transparent, non-proprietary formats are best. When a proprietary format is submitted to the archive (such as a
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document) an accompanying plain text file is also required. It is assumed that the scientists of the future will at least be able to make sense of regular
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of the science discipline nodes, along with the leaders of the Technical Support Nodes, the Project Manager, and Deputy Project Manager.
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Ring-Moon Systems Node – handles archiving, cataloging, and distributing planetary data of ring systems, moons, and planets (
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The PDS is divided into a number of science discipline "nodes" which are individually curated by planetary scientists.
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file in the PDS archive is accompanied by a searchable label (attached or detached) that describes the file content.
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technologies that may make PDS tasks both more efficient and more cost effective. It is formed by the
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Cartography and Imaging Science Node – archives many of the larger planetary image data collections (
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capabilities, tools, and facilities, and a growing community of planetary science investigators.
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Geosciences Node – handles data of the surfaces and interiors of terrestrial planetary bodies (
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Small Bodies Node (SBN) – handles asteroid, comet and planetary dust data (
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Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) Node – maintains the
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Engineering Node – provides systems engineering support to the PDS (
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storage media, archiving formats, and required documentation.
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Atmospheres Node – handles non-imaging atmospheric data (
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NASA
Solar System
Microsoft Word
ASCII
New Mexico State University
Washington University in St. Louis
Astrogeology Research Program
United States Geological Survey
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
University of California, Los Angeles
SETI Institute
University of Maryland, College Park
Comet
University of Maryland, College Park
Asteroid
Interplanetary Dust
Planetary Science Institute
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
SPICE
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
principal investigators
Solar System
Goddard Space Flight Center
Planetary Science Archive
International Planetary Data Alliance
Astrophysics Data System
Spacecraft Planet Instrument C-matrix Events
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
Parameter Value Language
SIMBAD

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