Data

We processed 41 Voyager 2 images of Neptune’s moon Triton with pixel scales 2 km/pixel form their raw, compressed, archived state to more usable cloud-optimized geotiffs, which can easily be used within spatial analysis software such as GIS. Processing was done using the USGS’ ISIS software and included geometric and radiometric calibration, and the removal of image reseaux and corner...

Saturn’s moon Titan is a focus of scientific investigation and future exploration by NASA’s Dragonfly mission. Its surface is covered by lakes of liquid ethane and methane, vast dune seas, and abundant organics sourced from photochemical reactions in its dense atmosphere. Over the course of its 13-year mission, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) acquired near...

Uncrewed aerial system (UAS) imagery was collected over Cinder Lake Crater Field near Flagstaff, Arizona, a training site constructed in the late 1960s as a lunar analog site for Apollo astronauts and continues to serve as an operational analog environment. The DEM supports terrain analysis, visualization, illumination modeling, and mission simulation activities associated with planetary...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted at Kilbourne Hole within the Potrillo Volcanic Field in southern New Mexico, USA in November of 2021 and April of 2023. These surveys collected GPR data using variable antenna frequencies and survey methodologies around this volcanic feature. The main focus of this data collection was on the layering and stratigraphy of the volcanic...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted within the San Francisco Volcanic Field (SFVF) in Northern Arizona from October 8th-15th in 2016 and August 4th-8th in 2023. These surveys collected GPR data using variable antenna frequencies and survey styles in varied geologic terrains. The main focus of this data collection was on volcanic terrains in the SFVF, including lava...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted in and around the Lava Beds National Monument in northern CA during two field expeditions, in June of 2022 and May of 2024. These surveys collected GPR data using various antenna frequencies and multiple survey styles in varied geologic terrains. Types of terrain surveyed include inside of- and over lava tubes, on volcanic deposits...

Flynn Creek crater is a ~3.8 km diameter, >200 m deep, flat-floored impact structure that formed ~360 Ma in what is now north-central Tennessee (36°17’ N, 85°40’ W) [1-4]. Between 1967 and 1979, USGS scientist Dr. David Roddy conducted a drilling program at Flynn Creek crater, an invaluable terrestrial analog that can be applied to the field of planetary impact cratering dynamics [5,6]...

This dataset consists of data products derived from uncrewed aerial systems visible images and videos taken over three years from 2021 to 2024 over eskers at the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier margin in Iceland. This includes orthomosaics, digital elevation models (DEMs), elevation difference maps, shapefiles detailing the esker footprints that are visible in the previous datasets, videos of...

Grand Falls Dune Field (GFDF) on the Navajo Nation (70 km NE of Flagstaff, AZ) is an active, bimodal dune system in both grain size and composition. Felsic grains derive from the Little Colorado River, while mafic (basaltic) grains are sourced locally from nearby cinder cones, making GFDF an excellent terrestrial analog for dune fields on Mars, Venus, and Titan. A long‑term...

Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus have many commonalities; however, the surfaces of the two moons bear little resemblance to each other. Significantly, although both moons show ample evidence of lithospheric extension (e.g., rifting), only Enceladus has obvious features formed by lithospheric shortening. We hypothesize that this difference is primarily caused by the...

NASA’s lunar exploration objectives, which include both robotic and human missions to the surface, require data products with high spatial resolution and accuracy. Using rigorous photogrammetric methods, we have co-aligned thousands of high-resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) [Robbinson et al. 2010] of the lunar north and south...

The flood model GeoClaw, a program that simulates shallow surface flows by solving the 2D depth-averaged shallow water equations for flow, was used to assess potential downstream flooding risk post-asteroid-impact. The examined hypothetical impact scenarios were derived from the NASA PAIR 2025 Planetary Defense Conference (PDC) risk corridor during Epoch 1: impact energy averages between...