PDS ARCHIVED SPICE KERNELS

PDS ARCHIVED SPICE KERNEL DATASETS

The ESA SPICE Service creates an official, peer reviewed archive of the ESA missions SPICE data sets and stores them into the ESA's Planetary Science Archive (PSA). There, the archived SPICE data are available to anyone interested. The archive for each mission can be found here:

Mission Standard Link to Archive DOI
ExoMars 2016 PDS4 em16_spice 10.5270/esa-kfjsoi9
BepiColombo PDS4 Coming soon 10.5270/esa-m4c8r20
Mars-Express PDS3

MEX-E-M-SPICE-6-V2.0

10.5270/esa-i4gla0f
Rosetta PDS3

RO-RL-E-M-A-C-SPICE-6-V1.0

10.5270/esa-1dfi4i7
Venus-Express PDS3

VEX-E-V-SPICE-6-V2.0

10.5270/esa-n7dft1w

 

To cite SPICE data produced by the ESA SPICE Service in your publications please use the DOIs indicated in the table.

For each mission the kernels and associated descriptive information are provided as a single PDS data set. These are accumulating PDS data sets. For SPICE users who don't need the most recent flight operations kernels, acquiring these archived kernels using the PDS SPICE Archives link above is by far the best approach. This way you'll be sure to get the entire collection of archived kernels available as of the current archive date.