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🌌 NASA Planetary Data System (PDS)

Welcome to the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) GitHub organization, the home for open-source software supporting NASA’s planetary science data archiving, management, and discovery.

The PDS is NASA’s official archive for planetary mission data, ensuring long-term preservation and open access for the global science community. Our repositories include the standards, tools, and services that power the Planetary Data Cloud and the broader PDS.


🚀 What You’ll Find Here

For a deeper dive of all that is available, and an overview of current releases and roadmap, visit our github.io site →


🧪 For Developers


🛰️ About

The NASA PDS is a federated system of discipline nodes operated by institutions across the U.S.
The Engineering Node (EN), located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, manages this GitHub organization and oversees system-wide architecture, interoperability, and cloud operations.

For questions or assistance, contact pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov or visit the PDS Help Desk.


Sponsored by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and supported by the global planetary science community.

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  1. validate validate Public

    Validates PDS4 product labels, data and PDS3 Volumes

    Java 19 14

  2. pds-api-client pds-api-client Public

    Python library and API for accessing the online PDS Search API. This repository however only contains the utilities used to generate, test, document and demo the actual pds.api-client package. The …

    Python 3 6

  3. search-api-notebook search-api-notebook Public

    Jupyter notebooks for demonstrating and utilizing the Planetary Data System (PDS) Search API

    Jupyter Notebook 4 6

  4. pds4-information-model pds4-information-model Public

    The software tools and data necessary for generating the Information Model including PDS4 ontology, data, and information model.

    Java 12 7

  5. software-issues-repo software-issues-repo Public

    Issue tracking repository as a centralized entry point for general PDS software bugs and feature requests.

    1

  6. registry registry Public

    PDS Registry provides service and software application necessary for tracking, searching, auditing, locating, and maintaining artifacts within the system. These artifacts can range from data files …

    Python 3 2

Repositories

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  • PlanetPatrol Public

    Monitoring and notification system using GitHub Actions and Upptime

    NASA-PDS/PlanetPatrol’s past year of commit activity
    JSON 3 MIT 3 0 0 Updated Dec 25, 2025
  • naif-pds4-bundler Public

    Package to generate PDS4 SPICE Kernels Archives

    NASA-PDS/naif-pds4-bundler’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 5 Apache-2.0 7 13 0 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • pds-api Public

    PDS web APIs specifications and user's manual

    NASA-PDS/pds-api’s past year of commit activity
    7 3 35 1 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • operations Public

    Tickets for the PDSEN Operations Team

    NASA-PDS/operations’s past year of commit activity
    Python 6 1 64 0 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • registry-mgr Public

    Version<=5 of the standalone Registry Manager application responsible for managing the PDS Registry (https://github.com/NASA-PDS/registry) schemas and indexes. Version 6+ is now managed through https://github.com/NASA-PDS/registry-loader/ .

    NASA-PDS/registry-mgr’s past year of commit activity
    Java 0 2 14 7 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • template-repo-python Public template

    template repository for PDS python developments

    NASA-PDS/template-repo-python’s past year of commit activity
    Python 2 Apache-2.0 3 7 12 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • validate Public

    Validates PDS4 product labels, data and PDS3 Volumes

    NASA-PDS/validate’s past year of commit activity
    Java 19 Apache-2.0 14 78 6 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • harvest Public

    Version<=4 of the standalone Harvest client application providing the functionality for capturing and indexing product metadata into the PDS Registry system. Version 5+ are now managed through https://github.com/NASA-PDS/registry-loader/

    NASA-PDS/harvest’s past year of commit activity
    Java 6 3 23 2 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • doi-service Public

    Service and tools for generating DOIs for PDS bundles, collections, and data sets

    NASA-PDS/doi-service’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 Apache-2.0 0 66 8 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • cloud-tools Public

    Python utility scripts for use with the AWS Planetary Data Cloud

    NASA-PDS/cloud-tools’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 Apache-2.0 0 0 12 Updated Dec 22, 2025