Table · dataset · 2025
Cosmic Dust Catalog
Listed in Open NASA
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
- Resource curator.jsc.nasa.gov/dust/cdcat18/index.cfm ↗
download · from open nasa gov
Where it is published
- Open NASA dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/cosmic-dust-catalog ↗
landing page · from open nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=4a8c9734-2de4-450a-9f11-8293f69ae… ↗
metadata API · from open nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Planetary science
Related
- Possibly the same asCosmic Dust Catalog
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open NASA | 4a8c9734-2de4-450a-9f11-8293f69aef65 | 17 h ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:510107 | mapping · open nasa gov | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['planetary-science'] |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · open nasa gov | connector:open_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |