Cosmic Dust Catalog

Since May 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used aircraft to collect cosmic dust (CD) particles from Earth's stratosphere. Specially designed dust collectors are prepared for flight and processed after flight in an ultraclean (Class-100) laboratory constructed for this purpose at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. Particles are individually retrieved from the collectors, examined and cataloged, and then made available to the scientific community for research. Cosmic dust thereby joins lunar samples and meteorites as an additional source of extraterrestrial materials for scientific study.

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Maintainer	Nancy Todd
Last Updated	March 31, 2025, 12:59 (UTC)
Created	March 31, 2025, 12:59 (UTC)
accessLevel	public
accrualPeriodicity	irregular
bureauCode	{026:00}
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catalog_conformsTo	https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
catalog_describedBy	https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
harvest_object_id	19af1451-c368-4faf-b128-e19a0450648f
harvest_source_id	61638e72-b36c-4866-9d28-551a3062f158
harvest_source_title	DNG Legacy Data
identifier	NASA-0000018
issued	2018-06-25
landingPage	http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/dust/cdcat18/index.cfm
modified	2020-01-29
programCode	{026:007}
publisher	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
resource-type	Dataset
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source_schema_version	1.1
temporal	1981-01-01/2011-01-01
theme	{"Space Science"}