An Overview and Future Outlook on Open Planetary Research Workflows
Abstract
The field of planetary science is unusual among sciences because it draws almost exclusively from a shared collection of observational data often collected by spacecraft missions. These missions are, for the most part, too expensive and complex to be carried out by individual researchers or research groups, and must be carried out as national or international collaborations. To some extent then these projects are undertaken on behalf of the scientific community and the public. As a result, the field has a longstanding history of making scientific data from missions publicly available: via NASA's Planetary Data System, ESA's Planetary Science Archive, and dozens of similar institutions spread around the world. Recently, there is a rapidly growing awareness and expectation from both the research community and funding agencies that tools, infrastructure, or methodology developed within those projects should be similarly distributed. This is partially due to the rise of data science methods that thrive on shared data, methodologies, and tools. This presentation will provide a quick overview of key past, present, and ongoing activities related to open planetary science and highlight emerging efforts in reproducible and open research workflows that exist in data intensive planetary science research.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021AGUFM.U51B..04A