Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:astromat:data::1.0
NAME Data tables for AstroMaterials chemistry database archive
TYPE Data
DESCRIPTION This is an archive of laboratory data acquired on astromaterials samples; Archive assembled by S.M. Richard and Peng Ji
NASA?s Johnson Space Center is home to the world?s most diverse, extensive, and precious collection of astromaterials with more than 250,000 numbered samples of extraterrestrial materials that have been collected and returned to Earth by spacecraft missions or arrived on Earth naturally. For more than 40 years, NASA?s Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office (AACO) has made these samples available to the global research community. Thousands of laboratory studies have been conducted on the samples to describe and analyze their chemical, physical, and mineralogical properties and generated unique data of high value. Currently, these data are widely dispersed across decades of scientific publications and conference abstracts, and are difficult to find, access, and reuse. The Astromaterials Data System (AstroMat) is designed to make analytical astromaterials data easily accessible to scientists world-wide, and enable new ways of mining and analyzing these data leading to the creation of new knowledge. AstroMat will ensure the long-term utility and impact of these data, thus maximizing the scientific return of NASA?s investment into sample return missions, sample curation, and data acquisition on these samples. This collection is an archive snapshot of the data content in the system as of October 2020.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Astro Material Database Archive, chemical analytic data from extraterrestrial materials Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/1523010 (from parent bundle)
AUTHORS Lehnert, Kerstin; Ji, Peng
EDITORS
PUBLICATION YEAR 2021
DESCRIPTION This is an archive of laboratory data acquired on astromaterials samples; Archive assembled by S.M. Richard and Peng Ji