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NASA's Astromaterials Database: Enabling Research Through Increased Access to Sample Data, Metadata and ImageryThe Astromaterials Acquisition & Curation Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the designated facility for curating all of NASA's extraterrestrial samples. Today, the suite of collections includes the lunar samples from the Apollo missions, cosmic dust particles falling into the Earth's atmosphere, meteorites collected in Antarctica, comet and interstellar dust particles from the Stardust mission, asteroid particles from Japan's Hayabusa mission, solar wind atoms collected during the Genesis mission, and space‐exposed hardware from several missions. To support planetary science research on these samples, JSC's Astromaterials Curation Office hosts NASA's Astromaterials Curation digital repository and data access portal [http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/], providing descriptions of the missions and collections, and critical information about each individual sample. Our office is designing and implementing several informatics initiatives to better serve the planetary research community. First, we are re‐hosting the basic database framework by consolidating legacy databases for individual collections and providing a uniform access point for information (descriptions, imagery, classification) on all of our samples. Second, we continue to upgrade and host digital compendia that summarize and highlight published findings on the samples (e.g., lunar samples, meteorites from Mars). We host high resolution imagery of samples as it becomes available, including newly scanned images of historical prints from the Apollo missions. Finally we are creating plans to collect and provide new data, including 3D imagery, point cloud data, micro CT data, and external links to other data sets on selected samples. Together, these individual efforts will provide unprecedented digital access to NASA's Astromaterials, enabling preservation of the samples through more specific and targeted requests, and supporting new planetary science research and collaborations on the samples.
Document ID
20140012977
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Evans, Cindy
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Todd, Nancy
(Jacobs Technology, Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
October 15, 2014
Publication Date
December 15, 2014
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-32075
Meeting Information
Meeting: American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: December 15, 2014
End Date: December 19, 2014
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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