PDS – MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY DATA RELEASE 9

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the ninth release of data from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired from Sol 805 through Sol 938 (November 10, 2014 through March 28, 2015).

This release consists of raw and derived data sets from the following

instruments:

APXS

ChemCam

CheMin

DAN

Hazcam

MAHLI

MARDI

Mastcam

Navcam

RAD

REMS

SAM

SPICE

New dataset MSL-M-ROVER-6-RDR-PLACES-V1.0 provides rover positions and orientations.

To access the above data for this release:

http://pds.nasa.gov/subscription_service/SS-20150731.shtml

Links to all MSL data sets may be found on the PDS Geosciences Node web site:

http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/msl/

The data may also be reached from the main PDS home page:

http://pds.nasa.gov/

MSL data are archived at the PDS Atmospheres, Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI), Geosciences, Imaging, and Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) Nodes.

PDS offers two services for searching the MSL archives:

The Planetary Image Atlas at the Imaging Node allows selection of MSL image data by specific search criteria:

http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/search

The MSL Analyst’s Notebook at the Geosciences Node allows searching and downloading of all MSL data in the context of mission events. See:

http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/msl

The PDS Team

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PDS – MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY DATA RELEASE 9