Disseminating space and atmospheric data
LASP generates, maintains, and disseminates many types of space and atmospheric science data, including individual data sets as well as broader data collections. The available data sets, which span many scientific disciplines and more than four decades of space-based research at LASP, are summarized below.
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Data Collections
| Name | Parameter(s) | Spatial coverage | Temporal coverage |
| LASP Interactive Solar Irradiance Datacenter (LISIRD) | Total solar irradiance (TSI); solar spectral irradiance (SSI); solar models; solar radio flux; sunspot number; solar images | Sun/Earth | 1610-present |
| Space Weather Portal | Solar images and diverse magnetometer, particle, and solar wind measurements relevant to the study of space weather. | Sun/Earth | 1932-present |
Key LASP Datasets
| Name | Parameter(s) | Observable | Temporal coverage |
| Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) | Infrared, visible, and UV spectra, atomic density profiles, surface temperature, emissivity, water ice, water vapor, dust opacity, and vertical atmospheric temperature profiles | Mars | 2021-present |
| The Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) | Total Solar Irradiance (TSI); UV, Visible, and Near-Infrared Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI) | Sun | 2018-present |
| Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission | Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS), all in-situ instrumentation, ephemeris, solar wind dynamic pressure, spacecraft potential | Sun; Mars | 2014-present |
| Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission | Plasmas, particles, magnetic and electric fields, and ephemeris | Sun; Earth | 2015-present |
| Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) | Soft X-ray and Ultraviolet Spectral Solar Irradiance (SSI) | Sun | 2010-present |
| Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) | Total Solar Irradiance (TSI); Soft X-ray, UV, Visible, and near-Infrared Solar Spectral Irradiance (SSI) | Sun | 2003-present |
| Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Cloud Imaging and Particle Size instrument (CIPS) | Ultraviolet albedo; Polar Mesospheric cloud images, ice water content, particle radius | Earth | 2007-present |
| Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics Solar EUV Experiment (TIMED) | Soft X-ray and Ultraviolet solar spectral irradiance | Sun | 2002-present |
| Precision Solar Photometric Telescope (PSPT) | Red and blue continuum and CaIIK full-disk photometric images; magnetic structure image maps | Sun | 2005-present |
| Toroidal Imaging Mass-Angle Spectrograph (TIMAS) | Subsets of three-dimensional velocity distribution functions of magnetospheric ion species | Earth | 1996-2008 |
| Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) | Nitric oxide; sub-satellite auroral emissions; Solar soft X-rays | Earth; Sun | 1998-2000 |
| Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) | Ultraviolet solar spectral irradiance | Sun | 1991-2001 |
| Galileo | Ultraviolet spectra (UVS); extreme ultraviolet (EUV) | Earth + moon; Venus; Jupiter; Io Torus; Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9; Ida | 1995-2002 |
| Solar Mesosphere Explorer (SME) | UV & IR Ozone Profiles, UV & IR Vertical Ozone and NO2 Mixing Ratios, UV & IR Limb Radiance Profiles, Visible Spectrometer Radiance, UV & IR Ozone Radiance Data, Ultraviolet Solar Spectral Irradiance, NO2 Density Profiles | Sun; Earth | 1981-1989 |
| Voyager 2 | UV & Visible intensity and linear polarization | Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Earth + Moon; Venus | 1977-1989 |
| Mariner 9 (Mariner 71) | Ultraviolet spectra; cartography; ultraviolet aeronomy of upper atmosphere | Mars | 1971-1972 |
| Mariner 6 & 7 | Ultraviolet planetary spectra; limb profiles; upper atmosphere aeronomy | Mars | 1969 |