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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.

                            







                                                                Acquiring a Fits Reader



    Goddard Space Flight Center has a large list of available FTS readers. See http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_viewer.html .

    fv is located at HEASARC at http://heasarc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/. It works on many platforms, is free, and allows one to view and edit any FITS format image or table, even multi-layer files.

    Many places already have ds9, SAOImage. Anyone who uses IRAF uses this but it is a stand-alone. It can be downloaded located at http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html