The PDF files on this site require Adobe Acrobat for viewing Multimission Archives at STScI Padovani and Postman Multimission Archives at STScI Paolo Padovani and Marc Postman Archive Branch, STScI 1. As of October 1998, this includes over 5.6 Terabytes of science and engineering data, for a total of approximately 250,000 exposures. The past year has seen important strategic changes in the scope of the Institute's archival responsibilities. NAG5-7584 to the Space Telescope Science Institute. MAST was developed to support a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
MAST now holds, or provides links to, various missions or projects.
CCD array camera which has just begun general scientific observations. The potentials for users of having various archives at one site clearly transcend those of the individual archives considered separately. Most modern astrophysical problems, in fact, require observations spanning orders of magnitude in frequency. A step in this direction is AstroBrowse, a WWW-based protocol for linking resources distributed at different sites. AstroBrowse is intended to provide a single search interface for locating astronomical data stored in any number of individual databases or information services.