Advanced Instrument Systems (AIS)
Design and develop complex instrument systems to support commanding, state monitoring, data acquisition, realtime alignment control algorithms, science processing and data delivery.

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, is an instrument whose goal is to support climate research and improved weather forecasting.

Cassini-Huygens
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is currently exploring the ringed planet, Saturn, its mysterious moons, its stunning rings and its complex magnetic environment.

EarthKAM
Since 1996, EarthKAM students have taken thousands of photographs of Earth by using the world wide web to direct a digital camera on select space flights and currently on the International Space Station.

Jupiter Polar Orbiter (Juno)
Juno will fly to Jupiter and orbit its polar regions in order to understand the planet's gross size and structural properties, as well as measure Jupiter's atmospheric composition, temperature and deep wind profiles.

Mars Exploration Rovers (MER)
NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars.

Advanced Multimission Operations System (MGSS AMMOS)
The Advanced Multimission Operations System enables Principal Investigators to directly, immediately, flexibly and seamlessly interact with their instruments and their data from wherever they are located.

Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO)
MIRO (Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter) is a scientific instrument on the ROSETTA Spacecraft that will measure temperatures and abundances of asteroids and comets.

Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR)
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument provides a unique opportunity for studying the ecology and climate of Earth through the acquisition of global multiangle imagery on the daylit side of Earth.

Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS)
The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) experiments on the UARS and Aura satellites measure microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earth's atmosphere to remotely sense vertical profiles of atmospheric chemical composition, temperature, pressure, and

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) launched in 2005 and is on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time.

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is scheduled to land a rover on Mars in 2010, with the goal of assessing the past and present habitability of the area it explores on Mars.

NPP Sounding Evaluation (PEATE)
The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) mission collects and distributes remotely-sensed land, ocean, and atmospheric data to the meteorological and global climate change communities.

Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is a mission designed to make precise, time-dependent global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) from an Earth orbiting satellite.

Phoenix
The Phoenix Mars Mission, launched in August 2007, is specifically designed to measure volatiles (especially water) and complex organic molecules in the arctic plains of Mars.

Physical Oceanography Data Archive (PO.DAAC)
The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center is responsible for archiving and distributing data relevant to the physical state of the ocean.

Planetary Data System (PDS) Engineering Node
The Node provides systems support to PDS, handling standards, technology investigations, coordination & development of system-wide software, coordination of data ordering and distribution, and catalog development, implementation & maintenance.

Planetary Data System (PDS) Imaging Node
As curator of NASA's primary digital image collections from past, present and future planetary missions, the Node provides the digital image archives, ancillary data sets, software tools, and technical expertise.

Solar System Visualization (SSV)
The Solar System Visualization Project develops new science algorithms, visualization technologies, images, mosaics, and animations. The team has pioneered the use of HDTV and IMAX film technologies for science visualizations.

Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
The Spitzer Space Telescope has unprecedented infrared sensitivity that will allow astronomers to study the most distant, coldese, and most dust-obscured objects and processes in the universe.

STEREO - SECCHI
The Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory launched in 2006 will employ two nearly identical space-based observatories to provide the first-ever, 3-D stereoscopic images to study the nature of coronal mass ejections.

Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)
TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer) is one of four science instruments aboard NASA's Aura satellite, which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on July 15, 2004.

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