Table · dataset · 2025
Cosmic Dust Catalog
Listed in NASA Data Portal
Since May 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used aircraft to collect cosmic dust (CD) particles from Earth's stratosphere.
Description
Specially designed dust collectors are prepared for flight and processed after flight in an ultraclean (Class-100) laboratory constructed for this purpose at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. Particles are individually retrieved from the collectors, examined and cataloged, and then made available to the scientific community for research.
Cosmic dust thereby joins lunar samples and meteorites as an additional source of extraterrestrial materials for scientific study.
Links
Get the data
- PDF curator.jsc.nasa.gov/dust/cdcat18/Catalog18-Main.pdf ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/cosmic-dust-catalog-58090 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=27ac3414-eeab-47da-8aee-509a8a624… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Planetary science
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Data Portal | 27ac3414-eeab-47da-8aee-509a8a62453a | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:510107 | mapping · data nasa gov | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['planetary-science'] |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |