Summary
The NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) captures, archives, and distributes data from robotic exploration of the solar system, supporting a highly diverse set of heterogeneous data from over 600 instruments. Over the past several years, the PDS has been pursuing the PDS Data Services Initiative with a vision to provide an integrated world-wide data services platform that enables the efficient discovery, dissemination, use and analysis of internationally sponsored planetary science archives [1]. One of the primary tasks needed to make that happen is providing a modernized, centralized PDS website. The vision for the new and improved website is to provide the current and future international planetary science community with an approachable and unified PDS web presence, user experience, and portal to the data, documentation, services, tools, and information necessary for enabling scientific discovery.
Come join this splinter and see our new beta site, as well as a walk-through of some of the future designs. Feedback welcome!