1. The Planetary Data System and “PDS Challenge” Activity
PDS Program Scientist
Ed Grayzeck
Nov 28, 2012

2. Current NTL interactions
“PDS Challenge” status as of 2012
Gathered ideas from within PDS – two winners
Teamed with NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) (NASA/Harvard/TopCoder) to implement as PSD action
Created series of contests (now phase 2) supported by NASA Advanced Exploration Systems (Jason Crusan)
Used a restricted sample of SBN (comet Halley) data on excess server
Established an API
Developed an Application for Android and iOS phones
Teacher applications
Presented to MC at Aug meeting
Poster and presentation at Oct DPS

3. PDS Challenge Next Steps
Contests to develop Teacher Lesson Plans?
(teaming with current PDS CSI function)
Goal - broaden data access at PDS Nodes?
Talk of teaming with Rings to search Cassini data for ring disruptions – citizen science.
Other Node ideas

4. Background – Google Moon
ARC initiative to amalgamate large collection of recent lunar data (Google Moon)
Descriptions of past PDS-Google interactions (meeting with Jim, Bill, and Ed - Nov 1)
PSD response: outline earlier work with Google through ARC/UCD (Jay) sent to SMD and related archives for further cooperation
PDS interactions with World Wide Telescope (Beyer & Scharff) and current work with NTL
Need to ask Nodes of any further interaction?