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From NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.govThu Feb 1 19:30:05 1996
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:45:08 -0500
From: NASA HQ Public Affairs Office <NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.gov>
To: press-release-com@mercury.hq.nasa.gov
Subject: Planetary Images Available at New Web Site
Douglas Isbell
Headquarters, Washington, DC February 1, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1753)
Edward McNevin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-5011)
RELEASE: 96-21
PLANETARY IMAGES AVAILABLE AT NEW WEB SITE
One of the world's most popular photo collections --
images of the planets produced by the U.S. space program --
goes online in a central location today as part of a joint
project between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
NASA's Planetary Photojournal, accessible on the
Internet via the World Wide Web, enables access to NASA's
archive of planetary images for viewing and use by the
public, scientists, educators and publishers.
"This Web site opens a fresh window on the planets and
what we have learned from them," said Wesley T. Huntress,
Jr., NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science.
"Communication is the final and probably the most important
step in the scientific process. Using some of the same
computer technology that helps us generate new discoveries,
this partnership with the USGS will allow us to share this
knowledge with people everywhere."
"The new system currently provides access to images
residing in collections at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), Pasadena, CA, and at the USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, along
with captions and other information such as mapping data,"
said Sue LaVoie, a member of the development team at JPL.
The site features thumbnail and browse-size versions of the
images for viewing and provides user-friendly digital
downloading of images in a variety of formats and sizes.
Access is provided not only to the most popular images
but to the entire primary image data sets from various space
missions, LaVoie added. Links are provided to commercial
vendors for ordering hard copies of photographs, slides, CD-
ROMs and other imaging data products from the collection.
Other links in the new system allow users to jump to
and browse other space image data collections, LaVoie said.
Pointers and links to other sites, such as space mission
home pages, also are featured.
New images released from NASA missions will be placed
on the system in parallel with release to the news media.
Addresses for the new NASA Planetary Photojournal are:
http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PIA (at JPL)
http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PIA (at the USGS)
At JPL, the Planetary Photojournal development team was
led by LaVoie and included Eric DeJong, Elizabeth Duxbury,
Myche McAuley, Edward McNevin III and Jurrie van der Woude,
while the USGS team was led by Larry Soderblom and included
Eric Eliason and Haig Morgan.
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