The goal of the MER PORTAL is to ensure that people who have no connection to the mission have what they need to find an analyze MER data:

1. User Guides that enable data analysis
2. Links to existing tools and websites relevant to the MER mission and scientific analysis
3. An intuitive science-based search with the capability of downloading selected data from the PDS
4. Contextual information
5. Data quality indicators
6. Visualization tools

We are currently (2024) in Phase 1 of this project, funded by a NASA Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools grant (80NSSC23K0022). With this award, we are focusing on the first two categories above, and setting the stage (beginning the development life cycle) of the third.

Conference Abstracts and Presentations

• Geological Society of America Joint Northeastern and North-Central Section Meeting, March 2025 slides (upcoming)
• Advancing IDEA in Planetary Science (IDEAcon24), October 2024 slides and abstract
• The 10th International Conference on Mars, July 2024 poster and abstract
• Geological Society of America (GSA) Connects, October 2023 poster 1 and poster 2
• Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
     March 2023 poster and abstract
     March 2020 poster and abstract