NASA's Planetary Photojournal, accessible on the Internet via the World Wide Web, enables access to NASA's archive of planetary images for viewing and use by the public, scientists, educators and publishers.
Communication is the final and probably the most important step in the scientific process.
Access is provided not only to the most popular images but to the entire primary image data sets from various space missions, LaVoie added. Links are provided to commercial vendors for ordering hard copies of photographs, slides, CD-ROMs and other imaging data products from the collection. Other links in the new system allow users to jump to and browse other space image data collections, LaVoie said. Pointers and links to other sites, such as space mission home pages, also are featured. New images released from NASA missions will be placed on the system in parallel with release to the news media.