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The NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) Small Bodies Node (SBN) is managed by the University of Maryland and is located at its Department of Astronomy and the private non-profit Planetary Science Institute.

GUIDELINES FOR PDS DATA RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS

General Principles:

Releases should always be by the "PDS" and not the discipline nodes. There is only one PDS. Links at the DN dataset locations should guide people to other resources provided by the DNs for the community they serve.
An announcement should describe what has been released and provide a link to a page through which a user can access that data. Data Set IDs do not convey useful information. Data Set Names do, as does Data Set Terse Description (or it should...).
The URL for the dataset should be to a page where one can directly access that particular dataset and the information necessary for its use. The number of clicks from announcement to data download should be minimum.
Announcments should be pithy.

Sample Template 1


PDS RELEASES [DATA SET IDENTIFICATIONS]

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the availability of 
the following data set[s]: [or other optional introductory message]

[Data Set Name 1]
[URL 1]

[Data Set Terse Description 1 - optional]

[Data Set Name 2]
[URL 2]

[Data Set Terse Description 2 - optional]

For access to all data archived in the PDS, go to:

http://pds.nasa.gov

Sample Template 2


PDS RELEASES [DATA SET IDENTIFICATIONS]

The NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to announce the availability 
of data from the [MISSION] for the following instruments [or other 
optional introductory message]:

[Instrument 1]
[Instrument 2]
[Instrument 3]

These data, as well as mission and instrument information, may be 
accessed at:

[URL]

For access to all data archived in the PDS, go to:

http://pds.nasa.gov

EXAMPLES (MODIFIED)

February 3, 2008


[NASA] PDS RELEASES NEW HORIZONS DATA

The NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to announce the first 
delivery of the data from the NEW HORIZONS mission. The delivery 
includes POST-LAUNCH CHECKOUT and JUPITER FLYBY row and calibrated data 
for the following New Horizons instruments:

MVIC (Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera)
LEISA (Linear Etalon Image Spectral Array)
Alice (UV imaging  spectrometer)
SWAP (Solar Wind Around Pluto)
PEPSSI  (Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Sciences Investigation)
LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager)
SDC (Student Dust Counter)
SPICE data are also available.

To see and download the data as well as mission and instrument
information, go to

http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/missions/newhorizons/index.html 

For access to all data archived in the PDS, go to:

http://pds.nasa.gov

January 13, 2008


[NASA] PDS ANNOUNCES FIRST MESSENGER DATA RELEASE

The Planetary Data System announces the first release of data from 
the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
(MESSENGER) mission. The release includes EDR level data acquired 
during cruise, the Earth flyby (Aug 2, 2005), and the 1st (Oct 24,
2006) and 2nd (June 5, 2007) Venus flybys. Not all instruments
acquired data during each of these mission phases.

Data sets from the following experiments are now available:

EPPS (Energetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer)
GRNS (Gamma Ray and Neutron Spectrometer)
MAG (Magnetometer)
MASCS (Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer)
MDIS(Mercury Dual Imaging System)
MLA (Mercury Laser Altimeter)
RS (Radio Science)
XRS (X-Ray Spectrometer)
SPICE data for the mission

The data can be accessed from:

http://pds.nasa.gov/messenger_fake_url/

To access all data archived in the PDS, go to:

http://pds.nasa.gov.

January 6, 2008


[NASA] PDS ANNOUNCES NEW DELIVERY OF MARS ODYSSEY RADIO SCIENCE DATA

The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce a new delivery
of Odyssey data for the RSS instrument.

To access the RSS data, please visit the following link:
http://pds.nasa.gov/subscription_service/SS-20080103.html

To access all data archived in the PDS, go to:
http://pds.nasa.gov.

November 25, 2007


[NASA] PDS RELEASES NEW MARS SOIL ANALOG LABORATORY DATA SET 

The Planetary Data System announces the release of a new laboratory
data set, the Mars Analog Soil Observations from the Bloomsburg
University Goniometer (BUG) Laboratory. These are bidirectional
reflectance distribution function measurements of five Mars soil
analogs, acquired using the MER Pancam flight spare filters. The data
set was provided by Michael Shepard, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania.

The data is available at:
http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/labdata/marsbug.htm

For access to all data archived in the PDS, go to:
http://pds.nasa.gov