- Отрасли: Aerospace
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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
A distributed data system that NASA uses to archive data collected by Solar System robotic missions and ground-based support data associated with those missions. PDS is managed by NASA Headquarters' Planetary Sciences Division. The PDS is an active archive that makes available well documented, peer reviewed data to the research community. The archive and data within are held to high quality standards established by the PDS. The PDS is divided into a number of science discipline "nodes" which are individually curated by planetary scientists.
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The Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) engineering prototype later named Mars Pathfinder.
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Circles in parallel planes to that of the equator defining north-south measurements, also called lines of latitude.
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A modular upper stage operated with solid propellant, used with the Space Shuttle, Delta, and Titan launchers. The rocket was used to carry satellites from a low earth orbit to a geostationary transfer orbit or an interplanetary course. The payload was spin stabilized by being mounted on a rotating plate.
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