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- Access to a variety of NASA image products
Archive Support
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- Guidelines for PDMPs (March 1993, Rich Text Format)
- White paper on NASA science data retention
- White paper on Resident archives
- PDS Data Policies (March 2011)
- NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy (April 2009)
- NASA Mission Project Data Management Plans (PDMPs)
- Memoranda of Understanding
- Archive Plans
NSSDCA
Recent News in...
Astrophysics
JAXA's XRISM mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...
Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...
Heliophysics
The Parker Solar Probe made its 15th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.
ESA's Solar Orbiter reached its 6th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.
The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.
Lunar and Planetary Science
Launch of the ispace (Japan) Mission 2 / Resilience lunar lander and rover has been delayed to no earlier than January, 2025. The European Space Agency Bepi-Colombo mission will make its fifth flyby of Mercury on December 2. The NASA Lucy asteroid mission will make its second Earth flyby on December 13.![[USA.gov]](/logo/usagov_logo.gif){kind=logo}
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