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Welcome to the PDS Project Office

This is the Web site of the Project Office for NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS). The Office is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as part of the Solar System Exploration Division in the Solar System Exploration Data Services Office (SSEDSO).

The Planetary Data System is a distributed archive of data products from NASA planetary missions. PDS actively manages the archive to maximize its usefulness, and it has become a basic resource for scientists around the world. PDS is composed of eight teams, called "nodes." There are five science nodes organized primarily by subdisciplines of the planetary sciences. The remaining three nodes provide systems engineering, navigation and ephemeris information, and image processing support. [See "About the Nodes".]

To learn more about the PDS, its data archives, or tools, see the pds.nasa.gov.

News and Events:

  • The next Management Council (MC) Telecon is scheduled for Monday 14 May 2018 at 15:00 EST. (The December telecon has been cancelled.) Presentations and searchable minutes from previous telecons are permanently posted on the MC website (login required).

  • The 2018 Tech Session is scheduled for 13-15 February, Pasadena.

  • The first two 2018 MC Face-to-Face Meetings are scheduled for 4-5 April, Las Cruces and 28, 29, and 30 August, Flagstaff. The third is scheduled for 7-8 November, location is TBD.

  • The new version of the Mission/Build Schedule is now available.

  • The PDS4 Training Strategy Development Meeting took place on 28 August 2017.

  • Presentations and searchable minutes from the MC Face-to-Face held on 29-30 November 2017 at The Westin La Paloma in Tucson AZ are permanently posted on the MC website (login required).

  • Presentations and searchable minutes from the MC Face-to-Face held on 29-30 August 2017 at The Hilton in San Jose CA are permanently posted on the MC website (login required).

  • Presentations and searchable minutes from the MC Face-to-Face held on 19-20 April 2017 at The Westin in Pasadena CA are permanently posted on the MC website (login required).

  • Presentations and searchable minutes from the MC Face-to-Face held on 2-3 November 2016 at The Westin in Pasadena CA are permanently posted on the MC website (login required).

  • Presentations and notes from the 2016 PDS Tech Session held on 21-23 September at Caltech are available on the meeting webpage (login required).

  • The AMMOS-PDS Pipeline Service presentation, from April 2014, is available for public use.

  • The PDS Challenge Demo and API website is now publicly accessible.