ESA and Mars Express archive activities Olivier Witasse Mars Express project scientist

ESA Planetary Science Archive www.rssd.esa.int/psa

Main problems of the ESA archive Data completeness (raw and calibrated): this has been greatly improved, but it’s not yet ideal. Problems of resources within the PI teams. And ESA manpower sometimes. Lack of higher-level data: no PI team commitment, lack of resources etc… Lack of tools for data visualisation and processing (varies from team to team) Interface issues (should be solved in the near-future hopefully)

Organisation of data workshops for Mars Express June 2007, May 2008, June 2008, July 2009 Experiments: HRSC, OMEGA, MARSIS, Radio-science Feedback: we need to improve the service.

Question? Raw/calibrated data + software or Derived data?

Higher-level data in the PSA for Mars Express HRSC camera Digital Terrain Model MARSIS Total Electron Content (to be delivered today) Radio-Science atmospheric vertical profile (under corrections) MARSIS vertical electron density profiles (under preparation) Surface global maps (under discussion/preparations) Atmospheric profiles (under negotiation !)

Next steps for the ESA archive Improve the ESA PSA archive; User workshop to be organised in 2010; Release higher-level data as much as possible; Tools? Mars Express atmospheric data: work with Europlanet? Final objectives: make sure that the data from the ESA planetary missions are being used by the community.