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.
- Core Standards — PDS4 Information Model
- Core Tools & Services — Validate, Registry, Registry API, peppi
- Data Workflows — Nucleus, Data Upload Manager
- Web & User Experience — web-modernization, feedback-widget
For a deeper dive of all that is available, and an overview of current releases and roadmap, visit our github.io site →
- 🧭 Developer Docs: nasa-pds.github.io wiki
- ⚙️ Contribution Guidelines: CONTRIBUTING.md
- 🤖 Pull Request Reviews: copilot-instructions.md
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.