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Too bad this data can't be opened for hobbyists to review, in the same manner that hobbyist astronomers assist in discovering new stars.
by QittyQat 9y ago
Too bad this data can't be opened for hobbyists to review, in the same manner that hobbyist astronomers assist in discovering new stars.
- sigstoat 9y agofor what it's worth, they were doing a much better job of getting data from their more recent missions (maybe 2000 on?) up on websites. the data from these research instruments is not easily analyzed using public information, though. overviews of how the instruments are _supposed_ to work are published in a book on the entire mission (for instance, for SDO: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-3673-7 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-3673-7 ) but as far as i know the weirdness instruments develop over their life isn't written down anywhere public. and the data processing code for these things is sufficiently complicated that even with all of the documentation and access to the PIs and hardware engineers, it takes at least a few engineer*years to get working.
- staofbur 9y agoI had a 50-odd CD set of voyager data dumps from NASA once. Not sure what happened to them but the data was out there and obtainable. Edit: turns out you can download at least some of them from archive.org! https://archive.org/details/VoyagerstotheOuterPlanetsVol5 https://archive.org/details/VoyagerstotheOuterPlanetsVol5