Sites for Solar-Terrestrial Physics (and Planetary Sciences)

• Data Centers
• Institutes
• Projects & Missions
• Tools for Analysis
• Education & Publicity
• Societies

Data Centers

----- Japan -----
• Spacecraft data
  <<< ISAS: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science >>>
  • Space Science database: DARTS (Data Archive amd Transmission System: Database for Space Science)
    
    • Akebono
    • Geotail
    • Yohkoh [
    • CDAWeb
  • ISAS Missions (ongoing, approved, and completed)
  • Library Index (only from ISAS, in Japanese)
  <<< NASDA: National Space Development Agency of Japan >>>
  • Space Environments & Effects System: database
  • NASDA Current Projects

• Ionosphere data
  <<< Communication Research Lab. >>>
  • Ionospheric Sounding Data in JAPAN

• Geomagnetism Data
  <<< World Data Center for Geomagnetism (Kyoto Univ.) >>>
  • Geomagnetic Data Services [Indices, Field Data, Model Fields, Catalogue, etc.)
  <<< Kakioka Magnetic Observatory (Japan Meteorological Agency) >>>
  • Kakioka Geomagnetic Data
  <<< Onagawa Magnetic Observatory (Tohoku U.) >>>
  • Onagawa Geomagnetic Data
  <<< Kyosyu U. >>>
  • Magnetometer data (Circum-pan Pacific, 210MM, Equatorial)

• Polar upper atmosphere data
  <<< NIPR: National Institute of Polar Research >>>
  • World Data Center for Aurora
  • SuperDARN [ SENSU database ]
  • EISCAT [data: under-construction]
  • [LINK] Polar upper atmosphere data links (SYOWA base etc.)

• Airgrow data
  <<< National Astronomical Observatory Japan (NAOJ) >>>
  • Airglow database (5577/5393/6300A, background/other)
  <<< STE-Lab: Solar Terrestrial Environment Lab. (Nagoya Univ.) >>>
  • Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTI) data

• Solar data
  <<< National Astronomical Observatory Japan (NAOJ) >>>
  • Solar Optical database

• Links
  <<< STE-Lab: Solar Terrestrial Environment Lab. (Nagoya Univ.) >>>
  • S-RAMP database catalogue (in Japan)

----- Overseas: USA -----
• Spacecraft data
  <<< NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration >>>
  • Space Physics Data Fascility (SPDF)
    • Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) [original]
    • Satellite Situation Center (SSCWeb)
    • Space Physics Catalog (SPyCAT)
    • Space Physics Data Availability Catalog (SPDAC)
    • Space Physics Data System (SPDS)
    • National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
      • Space physics
      • Solar physics
      • Planetary and Lunar Sciences
      • The Magnetospheric Yellow Pages
  • Missions (under-study, in-development, operating, and past)
  • Missions (in JPL)

• Groundbased data
  <<< NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration >>>
  • NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center
    • Solar-Terrestrial Physics
    • The World Data Center System

----- Overseas: Europa -----
• Spacecraft data
  <<< Inter-agency >>>
  • SEVEM database: Survey of ELF&VLF Experiments in the Magnetosphere
  <<< ESA: European Space Agency >>>
  • Projects

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Institutes

----- Japan -----
• Space angencies
  • ISAS: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
    • Missions (ongoing, approved, and completed)
    • Earth and Planetary Science groups: Space Plasma / Atmosphere / Solid
  • NASDA: National Space Development Agency of Japan
    • Current Projects

• Goverment labs
  • Communication Research Lab.
    • Ionospheric Sounding Data in JAPAN

• Academic organizations
  • NIPR: National Institute of Polar Research
    • Upper Atmosphere Research group
  • National Astronomical Observatory Japan (NAOJ)
    • Solar Radio observation (Nobeyama Solar Radio Observatory)
  • STE-Lab: Solar Terrestrial Environment Lab. (Nagoya Univ.)
  • RASC: Radio Science Center for Space and Atomosphere (Kyoto Univ.)
    • Plasma group
    • Rader group
  • PPARC: Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center (Tohoku Univ.)

----- Overseas: USA -----
• NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Space Sciences: general
    • Missions (under-study, in-development, operating, and past)
  • GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center
  • JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab.)
    • Missions
• NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• LANL: Los Alamos National Lab.
  • Space Sciences
• APL: Apllied Physics Lab. (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
• SSL: Space Science Lab. (U. of California, Berkeley)

----- Overseas: Europa -----
• ESA: European Space Agency (Europa)
  • Solar System Div
    • Projects
  • ESOC (space operation center)
  • ESRIN
  • ESTEC (space technology)
• France: CNES
• Germany: Max Planck Institute
  • Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
  • Aeronomy (MPAE)

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Projects & Missions for Earth and Planetary Sciences

ISAS Projects

----- Past -----
• DENPA (REX): Plasmasphere (1978-)
• Kyokko (EXOS-A): Plasmasphere (1978-)
• Jikiken (EXOS-B): Plasmasphere (1978-)
• Ohzora (EXOS-C): Earth upper atmosphere (1984-1988)
• Sakigake (MS-T5): Comet P/Halley Flyby (1985-1999)
• Suisei (Planet-A): Comet P/Halley Flyby (1985-)

----- On going -----
• Akebono (EXOS-D): Plasmaspheric & Auroral mission
  • Akebono(EXOS-D) project: homepage
  • data: DARTS/Akebono
• GEOTAIL: Magnetospheric mission
  • Geotail-project: Japan
  • Geotail-project: USA
  • data: DARTS/Geotail
  • SIs
    • LEP/MGF(/EFD): QL-data (ISAS)
    • CPI (U. of IOWA)
    • HEP
    • EPIC:Summary plot (APL, Johns Hopkins Univ.)
    • PWI: QL-data(24h-plot) (RASC, Kyoto Univ.)
    .... one of ISTP (International Solar-Terrstrial Physics) project
• NOZOMI (Planet-B): Mars Orbiter
  • Project home
    .... collaborated with MarsExpress : European Mars orbiter

  ----- Future -----

• Muses-C: Sample Return from Asteroid (2002-)
• Lunar-A: Lunar Penetrater mission (2002-)
• Selene: Lunar Orbiter - joint mission with NASDA (2004-)

• Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) : Atmosphere of Venus [in planning]
• Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) : Magnetosphere of Mercury [in planning]
  .... Joint project with Beppi-Columbo: European Mercury orbiter composit
• Geotail II : Magnetospheric multi-spacecraft mission [in planning]

Overseas Projects

ISTP: International Solar-Terrstrial Physics
• Overview of ISTP-RELEVANT SPACECRAFT
• Common Data Archive: CDAWeb [original]
• Wind
  • WAVES
• Polar
• SOHO
• Cluster-II
  • Data Center (Germany)
• Interball
• ACE
  • Real Time data
  • Science Center
• IMAGE
• Interplanetary missions
  • Coordinated Heliospheric Observations Data ---- Ulysses/Voyager/Pioneer etc.
• IMP-8
• GOES-6/7
• LANL
• SAMPEX
• FAST
• Equator-S

• STEREO
• MarsExpress
• Mercury: Beppi-Columbo

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Tools and Information for Data Analysis

• The Common Data Format (CDF) [Common format for CDAWeb]

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Education and Public Outreach

• ISAS
  • Image Library
  • Kids Galaxy (Japanese only)
• NASDA
  • Space Information Center
    • Image Galary
• NASA/GSFC
  • Imagine the Universe!
  • StarChild
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Societies

• International
  • URSI: International Union of Radio Science
• Japan
  • SGEPSS: Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences
  • JSPS: The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
  • [Joural] EPS: Earth, Planets and Space
• USA
  • AGU: American Geophysical Union
    • SPA: Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
    • Planetary Science Section
• Europa
  • EGS: European Geophysical Society

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