ASTROMAT

Astromat is funded by NASA's Planetary Sciences Division to archive, curate, and disseminate data acquired on samples collected as part of past, present, and future NASA missions and curated by the Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office, part of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES) of NASA's Johnson Space Center. ARES is responsible for the curation of the world's most diverse, extensive, and precious collection of astromaterials with >250,000 numbered samples of extraterrestrial materials that have been collected and returned to Earth by spacecraft missions or arrived on Earth naturally... Astromat aims to advance knowledge derived from astromaterials samples by facilitating discovery, access, publication, attribution, and preservation of laboratory data acquired on astromaterials samples.

Primary location: Palisades United States