The Planetary Science Archive (PSA) closed year 2018 with new functionalities allowing users to easily browse products hrough a specific user interface. The so-called image gallery provide a rapid and visual access to images (and any other types of browse products) of ESA missions exploring the Solar System. The PSA improved its data download manager, and interoperability access to the archive, so that users obtain with an easier path the products needed. In addition, heliophysicists can now download specific datasets from the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) instruments directly in CDF format.
During this year 2018, Rosetta delivered additional datasets to the PSA, in particular calibrated datasets of numerous instruments. The archive also received the first public datasets from ExoMars and the first commissioning data from BepiColombo, which was launched in October of the same year. Mars Express continued its delivery of data, including newly processed and scientifically validated subsurface MARSIS data for the entire mission. On the front of the legacy archives, the PSA publicly released data from the Neutron Mass Spectrometer (NMS) of the Giotto mission, products that were never archived before.
During the year 2019, the PSA will continue its service to the mission in operations, post-operations and legacy. A specific effort will be done on improving the content of the legacy archives, given that past observations are proved to be very useful daily. And ultimately, the PSA will continue to improve its services with new functionalities, and better designed access to the data. Of particular interest, and long awaited, the PSA will provide functionalities towards geometrical searches of the datasets.