This paper, presented at the 2004 ESA Symposium on Ensuring the Long -Term Preservation and Adding Value
to the Scientific and Technical Data in Frascati, Italy, is available in
PDF format
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The Planetary Data System (PDS) is the official science data archive for NASAce community
and currently contains about 10 terabytes of data collected from over thirty years of solar
system exploration missions. The PDS is an online archive that consists of several geographically
distributed science discipline nodes. These nodes support the production of archive quality data
products, curate the products, and provide supporting science and technical expertise to the planetary
science community.