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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.

Atmospheres data and related services provided by the Planetary Atmospheres Node


  • PDS Atmospheres Data Set Catalog - Atmospheres data holding which include data, document, software and index directories. This data is best downloaded through our ftp site: ftp://atmos.nmsu.edu. When ftping login with user id: anonymous and password should be a valid email address. Data not available here can be requested through email.

  • Recently Archived Volumes - These volumes were recently archived. For a complete listing of all volumes available click above on the Data Set Catalog link.

  • Data Sets in Review - Before a data set can be archived it is reviewed to make sure that it in a proper PDS format and that all the proper documentation is included. Read the reviewers' comments on data sets going through the review process.