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Find a Node - Use these links to navigate to any of the 8 publicly accessible PDS Nodes.

This bar indicates that you are within the PDS enterprise which includes 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes which are overseen by the Project Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each node is led by an expert in the subject discipline, supported by an advisory group of other practitioners of that discipline, and subject to selection and approval under a regular NASA Research Announcement.




Finding the Data You Want



1. Search Options


  • The Accessing Data tab above will provide a link to the data volume



2. Volume INDEX Files



Each volume has an INDEX subdirectory containing several files including:



  • INDXINFO.TXT: summarizes the structure and contents of the other two files in the INDEX subdirectory.

      • Users are strongly encouraged to read an INDXINFO.TXT before working with the INDEX files.

  • INDEX.TAB: an ASCII table file with one row for each data file on the volume.

  • INDEX.LBL: the detached PDS label file for the INDEX.TAB file. This is a text file giving names and definitions of all the columns in the index.

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