Earth

The Geosciences Node archives Earth-based data sets that have relevance to planetary studies.

GRSFE is the Geological Remote Sensing Field Experiment conducted in the southwestern United States in 1989 to provide a variety of data sets for testing the modeling of planetary surfaces.

Laboratory-based data sets include Mars soil analog measurements from the Bloomsburg University Goniometer (BUG), and Mars analog handlens-scale images and measurements of samples from various field locations.

The Wallops/GSFC Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) obtained LIDAR observations of explosion craters over the Nevada Test Site.

The Pre-Magellan data collection was assembled in advance of the 1990 Magellan mission to Venus to provide relevant radar and gravity data for comparison to Magellan data. It includes some Earth-based data sets.