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Questions about data gathered for a scientific end, e.g. soil sampling data returned by Curiosity

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I am having some difficulties understanding the data on CDDIS website, especially, how to navigate them. I am essentially trying to get access to some high precision State (Position and velocity) ...
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I've been asked for my job to do research on satellites with multi-channel sensors for chlorophyll a detection. We want to use one for a project like this one, preferably free-to-use. I have found ...
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The IM-1 mission flipped over during its landing attempt. Luckily there still is a decent connection with the spacecraft. From what I have seen, some things that they planned such as using an eagleCAM ...
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I need to develop a model to predict the orbital decay time for my graduation project but I searched for data that can help in that project and I failed to obtain such data. Can any one suggest a ...
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I’ve been obsessed with the perseverance images, specially the images from the SHERLOC-WATSON system- the UV camera tricked out with racing stripes and fuzzy dice hanging from its rear-view mirror (...
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I'm writing a solar system simulation that uses n-body physics. To plug in the celestial bodies in our solar system, I'm copying orbital values from wikipedia. For one example, the wikipedia page for ...
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An Indian startup, is trying to build a multi- payload satellite having both optical and SAR sensor on the same satellite. The look angles of the these payload are quite different and it is very ...
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I'm working on a research paper where the primary data source is going to be the DISCOSweb API. This API/Dataset provides a wealth of information on manmade object in orbit (debris, payloads, spent ...
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Is there any place aside from NASA-JPL web page, where there is only some general information about the missions, where one can find more in-depth detailed values? For instance, I am looking for the ...
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I would like to know if there are some datasets that are monitoring the grounding electronic charges provided by the satellites
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If we have people on Mars around 20, 25 years from now, what kind of scientific study would they be doing on a daily basis? I know places we'd want to study, places where ancient water flows might ...
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USNO(the United States Naval Observatory) generates positions for the celestial bodies(planets, moons,stars) and provide in a form of .bsp files and their ...
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I understand that during 1930/1940s, Baloons were used to gather high altitude data like "pressure" or "temp." I wonder how the instruments "recorded" their data? E.g. ...
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If something were to happen that would cause the James Webb Telescope to be unable to downlink its data to earth, how long could it continue collecting observations before it would run out of storage ...
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The question If you fell into a crater on the moon in your spacesuit and no jetpack, is there a way to use low gravity to get out of the hole? mentions Aristarchus crater as an example. It's a pretty ...
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