Research Tools

Context Browser

The Context Browser is a simplified and logical navigation tool to find PDS data.  Not only does it provide basic information about NASA missions, planets, small bodies, and instruments, it highlights key datasets, relevant tools, and connections with associated objects, missions and instruments.

The Ferret

A tool that allows searchable access to all the Small Bodies Node asteroid, comet, and satellite archive holdings.  Data can be searched by target or by properties such as family, taxonomy, or diameter.  The Advanced search provides custom searches by user-selected attributes.

Small Bodies Image Browser (SBIB)

This tool is designed to graphically search through the large number of images quickly. It takes about 2-5 minutes to download the database to your browser depending on your internet connection. Once done, data searches are very fast. Currently SBIB accesses OSIRIS-REX Bennu, New Horizons Pluto Encounter, Dawn Vesta, Dawn Ceres, and Near Eros data. Additional missions and objects will be added as development continues.

CometCIEF (Cometary Coma Image Enhancement Facility)

This tool allows you to upload an image to our server and have it be enhanced by a certain enhancement technique.
(We have seen some browser compatibility issues recently, if you experience problems please try a different browser)

CO-SHARPS Processing Boutique

PSI hosts the Colorado SHARAD Radar Processing System (CO-SHARPS), which supplements the Italian-produced standard SHARAD products archived in the Planetary Data System. A primary feature of CO-SHARPS is the processing boutique, which allows the use of custom processing parameters to produce radargrams that may better resolve features specific to individual locations on Mars.

MARSTHERM

Thermophysical analysis tools developed by Mars researchers at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.