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

2. ESA Planetary Science Archive

3. 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)

4. 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.

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

6. 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 !)

7. 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.