PDS – MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY DATA RELEASE 4

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the fourth release of data from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired from Sol 360 through Sol 449 (August 10 through November 10, 2013).

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

Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
Chemistry & Micro-Imaging (ChemCam)
Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)
Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcam)
Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
Mars Descent Imager (MARDI)
Mast-mounted Cameras (Mastcam)
Navigation Cameras (Navcam)
Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD)
Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS)
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, Pointing C-Matrix, and Event kernels (SPICE)

To access the above data: http://pds.nasa.gov/subscription_service/SS-20140317.html

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 MSL archives:

The Planetary Image Atlas at the Imaging Node:
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/search

The MSL Analyst’s Notebook at the Geosciences Node:
http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/msl
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