*Good lord, it's all just sort of sitting there publicly available on the Internet as an actual no-kidding "planetary data system." Y'know, what the planetary instruments actually and factually showed about actual planets.
*I like how they tactfully urge civilian gawkers to avoid the dry scientific data sets, and go look at the pretty pictures. Sounds like a hot job for infoviz guys.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://pds.nasa.gov/about/faq.shtml
What data are available?
All data managed in the PDS archive is available. Currently supported missions include:
2001 Mars Odyssey
Cassini-Huygens
Clementine 1
Comet Sl9/Jupiter Collision
Deep Impact
Deep Space 1
Deep Space Program Science Experiment
Galileo
Geologic Remote Sensing Field Experiment
Giotto
Giotto Extended Mission
Ground Based Atmospheric Observations
Hayabusa
Hst
Infrared Astronomical Satellite
International Cometary Explorer
International Halley Watch
International Ultraviolet Explorer
Iue
Lunar Prospector
Magellan
Mariner 10
Mariner69
Mariner71
Mars Exploration Rover
Mars Express
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Observer
Mars Odyssey
Mars Pathfinder
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Messenger
Midcourse Space Experiment
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
New Horizons
Odyssey
Pioneer
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 11
Pioneer Venus
Pre-Magellan
Sakigake
Saturn Occultation Of 28 Sagittarius 1989
Saturn Ring Plane Crossing 1995
Saturn Small Satellite Astrometry
Stardust
Suisei
Support Archives
Ulysses
Vega 1
Vega 2
Viking
Voyager
(((If you're lying in bed after having broken your thighbone, you might want to crowdsource the locations and sizes of lunar craters for NASA. Harmless good fun, right?)))
*Makes one wonder what is THE WORST POSSIBLE THING YOU COULD POSSIBLY SEE on the Moon while web-cruising parts of the Moon that no one but a machine has ever looked at. It's like: OH NO!! You're like... reaching, reaching for your Twitter stream to alert a skeptical mankind about the lunar threat you just saw and.... ARRRGH! Lovecraftian madness sets in!
(((More Moon fun from the comers in the Moon biz:)))
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-04/13/content_9719155.htm
(((AAARGH(2)! Indian lunar spacecrafts unearths... or dis-earths, extra-earths, whatever – a Moon Pyramid!)))
http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2009/01/indian-moon-mission-pictures-show.html
