NSSDC is a partner of NASA’s other astrophysics “active archives” in making astrophysics data accessible. LAMBDA at Goddard makes cosmic microwave background data network-accessible. Other long-wavelength data are available from IRSA at Caltech. Optical and UV data are accessible from MAST at STScI. X-ray and gamma ray data are available from HEASARC at Goddard. NSSDC is the permanent archive for most NASA astrophysics data. NSSDC holds various relatively recent data on CD-ROMs. Many older astrophysics data sets, from before the establishment of the active archives, are available on other offline media.

The Planetary Data System has announced the first release of data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The data are from all primary instruments and cover the period from 23 June to 14 December 2009. New images of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been released. These are the most detailed views yet of Pluto and show changes in the surface markings. NASA has announced the three finalists for the next New Frontiers mission: the SAGE mission to Venus, the OSIRIS-REx mission to an asteroid, and the MoonRise mission to the lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin.

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