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Enhancing ESA Mars Express Archive: Challenges & Solutions

Mars Express project scientist Olivier Witasse addresses issues with ESA Planetary Science Archive. Challenges include data completeness, lack of tools for visualization, and interface issues. Mars Express data workshops held in 2007-2009. Next steps involve improving the archive, organizing user workshops, and releasing higher-level data. Objective is to ensure ESA planetary mission data is utilized effectively.

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Enhancing ESA Mars Express Archive: Challenges & Solutions

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  1. ESA and Mars Express archive activities Olivier Witasse Mars Express project scientist

  2. ESA Planetary Science Archive www.rssd.esa.int/psa

  3. Main problems of the ESA archive • Data completeness (raw and calibrated): this has been greatly improved, but it’s not yet ideal. Problems of resources within the PI teams. And ESA manpower sometimes. • Lack of higher-level data: no PI team commitment, lack of resources etc… • Lack of tools for data visualisation and processing (varies from team to team) • Interface issues (should be solved in the near-future hopefully)

  4. Organisation of data workshops for Mars Express • June 2007, May 2008, June 2008, July 2009 • Experiments: HRSC, OMEGA, MARSIS, Radio-science • Feedback: we need to improve the service.

  5. Question? • Raw/calibrated data + software or • Derived data?

  6. Higher-level data in the PSA for Mars Express • HRSC camera Digital Terrain Model • MARSIS Total Electron Content (to be delivered today) • Radio-Science atmospheric vertical profile (under corrections) • MARSIS vertical electron density profiles (under preparation) • Surface global maps (under discussion/preparations) • Atmospheric profiles (under negotiation !)

  7. Next steps for the ESA archive • Improve the ESA PSA archive; • User workshop to be organised in 2010; • Release higher-level data as much as possible; • Tools? • Mars Express atmospheric data: work with Europlanet? • Final objectives: make sure that the data from the ESA planetary missions are being used by the community.

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