09 Online archives (Space FAQ) part1
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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.
09 Online archives (Space FAQ) part1
CENTER FOR ADVANCED SPACE STUDIES
CASS offers online searching of planetary science databases, including
bibliographies, images, meeting abstracts, and other categories.
Internet users can access CASS via
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/CASS_home.html
telnet://cass.jsc.nasa.gov (login "cass", password "online")
This system is primarily for professionals in planetary science. Note
that CASS includes and replaces the online service formerly offered by
the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Contact leung@lpi.jsc.nasa.gov.
DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM (DMSP)
DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun
synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and
solar-terrestrial physics environments. DMSP sample data and information
may be accessed on-line via:
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/
http://web.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov
Contact Greg Deuel (dmsp@mail.ngdc.noaa.gov).
INFRARED PROCESSING & ANALYSIS CENTER
Caltech's IPAC provides access to an easy-to-use interface for making
queries of many astronomical catalogs, especially those from the
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) mission. You can also query the
Bright Star catalog, SAO star catalog, a number of extragalactic
(galaxy/quasar) catalogs, etc. Results can be saved to flat ASCII tables
or FITS files and copied to your computer via FTP. Using the interface
requires a machine running X Windows. You can get to IPAC via
http://xcatscan.ipac.caltech.edu
telnet://xcatscan.ipac.caltech.edu
Log in as "xcatscan" (no password needed).
Contact Joe Mazzarella (mazz@ipac.caltech.edu).
NASA AMES
Extensive archives are maintained at NASA Ames and are available via
anonymous FTP or an email server. These archives include many images and
a wide variety of documents including this FAQ list, NASA press
releases, shuttle launch advisories, and mission status reports. Please
note that these are NOT maintained on an official basis.
A listing of files available in the archive is in
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/
Magellan, Voyager, and Viking CD-ROMs are online in
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/cdrom/
Tens of thousands of images are available.
The GIF directory contains images in GIF format. The VICAR directory
contains Magellan images in VICAR format (these are also available in
the GIF directory). A PC program capable of displaying these files is
found in the IMDISP directory (see the item "VIEWING IMAGES" below).
The NASA media guide describes the various NASA centers and how to
contact their public affairs officers; this may be useful when pursuing
specific information. It's in
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/MISC/
Contact Eugene Miya (eugene@nas.nasa.gov).
NASA ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEM
The ADS is a distributed data retrieval system which is easy to use and
provides uniform access to ground-based and space-based astronomy data
from NASA data centers across the country. It currently has over 140
data catalogs of radio, infrared, optical, UV, and X-ray data which can
be queried by position or any other parameter in the catalog. The ADS
also provides tools to manipulate and plot tabular results. In addition,
ADS has a Beta version of an Abstracts Service which allows users to
query over 125,000 abstracts of astronomy papers since 1975 by authors,
keywords, title words, or abstract text words.
ADS use requires direct Internet access. For more info and to sign up to
become a user, email ads@cuads.coloradu.edu. The User's Guide and
"QuickStart" Guide (PostScript files) are in
ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/ads/
Contact Carolyn Stern Grant (stern@cfa.harvard.edu).
NASA DIRECTORY OF WAIS SERVERS
A WAIS database describing servers of interest to the space community is
described by the source file:
(:source
:version 3
:ip-name "ndadsb.gsfc.nasa.gov"
:tcp-port 210
:database-name "NASA-directory-of-servers"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "stelar-info@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov"
:description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5.1 on May 5 14:05:34 1993 by warnock@Hypatia
Maintainers of WAIS databases of interest to the NASA community can
register their databases with the NASA-directory-of-servers by sending
the source file to stelar-info@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov. Contact Archie
Warnock (warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov).
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