Last updated: 9/4/2018, through Amendment 20.
Step-1 Proposal due date: 9/18/2018
Step-2 Proposal due date: 12/7/2018
Data Availability date: 11/7/2018
The Cassini Data Analysis Program (CDAP) is described in Appendix C.26 of the ROSES 2018 NRA.
See the NSPIRES website.
Proposers are expected to carefully read the solicitation and should E-mail the program point of contact with any questions sufficiently ahead of the Step-1 proposal deadline.
Spacecraft mission data to be used in proposed work must be available in the Planetary Data System (PDS) or an equivalent, publicly accessible archive, at least 30 days prior to the full proposal submission deadline.
For volumes at the Ring-Moon Systems Node which meet the CDAP basic eligibility requirements for publicly available timing (based on the Step 2 Proposal due date), see the Data Status tab.
Searches of Cassini ISS, UVIS and VIMS data are fully supported in OPUS. CIRS searches are partially supported by OPUS.
For Cassini ISS, UVIS, and VIMS, the OPUS search parameters are based on enhanced geometric metadata generated at the Ring-Moon Systems Node, and include constraints relating to the surfaces of the planet and satellites as well as to the rings.
Our Cassini information pages provide:
SPICE data and software may be obtained from the NAIF web site. SPICE data files contain spacecraft and solar system geometry data necessary to interpret scientific observations from space-based instruments. The SPICE system also includes a large suite of software, mostly in the form of subroutines, that users incorporate in their own application programs to read SPICE files and to compute derived observation geometry, such as altitude, latitude/longitude, and lighting angles.