PDS: The Planetary Atmospheres Node
Introduction
A collaborative effort between the NASA Space Science Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) and the NASA Planetary Data System Atmospheres Node (ATM) & Planetary Plasma Interactions Node (PPI) to restore past Venus science data from NSSDCA deep archives to modern usable formats with the PDS4 Archive Standard. The NSSDCA and PDS aim to provide new access to these rich and priceless historical data for new analyses preparing for humanity's return to Venus.
NSSDCA has prepared a listing of legacy Venus data that is available with further links to NSSDCA description pages: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/venus_data.html
Completed or in-progress work with ATM and PPI are summarized in this table.
Projects
Mariner 5 (1967)
(2026) Magnetometer (MAG)
Mariner 10 (1973-1975)
(2026) Magnetometer (MAG) (Coming Soon)
Pioneer Venus Orbiter & Multiprobes (1973-1975)
(2027) Orbiter Infrared Radiometer (OIR) (Coming Soon)
(2026) Orbiter Cloud Photopolarimeter (OCPP) (Under Review)
(2026) Atmospheric Turbulence Radio Occultation (OTUR)
(2026) Orbiter Ultraviolet Spectrometer (OUVS)
(2025) Differential Long Baseline Interferometer (DLBI)
(2025) Large Probe Neutral Mass Spectrometer (LNMS)
(2024) Special Events Data (SED)
Venera (1965 - 1983) / VeGa (1984 - 1987)
(2026) Energetic Particles Data (Venera 2-15; VeGa 1, 2) (Under Review)
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Curator: Lyle Huber
ATM Mgr: Nancy Chanover
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