THE CLUSTER AND DOUBLE STAR SCIENCE ARCHIVE
VERSION 3.6.0, RELEASED 5 September 2024

 

→ CSA ON THE WEB 

While working best on Firefox, the CSA is available through any internet browser.

  • Search, download and display Cluster and Double Star data
  • Data downloads up to 1 GB on the web directly, up to 40 GB via command-line request (link provided)
  • Visual inspection of metadata details
  • Visualize key datasets (on-demand & pregenerated plots of 1h, 6h and 24h long) and download in GIF/PS/CEF/PNG
  • Quick-look plot browsing
  • Browse pre-generated or create on-demand inventory plots
  • Visualize particle distributions

We would greatly appreciate reports of any problems or unexpected behaviour.

 

→ COMMAND-LINE USER GUIDE

Use the above link to learn how to access the Cluster science archive data products and metadata via several ways including: wget and curl, Python, MATLAB, IDL and data streaming. 

 

ANALYSIS Tools

Data Mining - Search for intervals from the whole mission that match ranges of many key parameters 

Interactive Plotting - New interactive plotting allows zooming and fully customisable ranges, axis labels, titles, fonts...

Bryant Plots - View key parameters and predicted boundaries over ranges of whole orbits

 


Check the FAQ section if any problem occurs, or contact us.

History of new features implemented per version.

About this archive

Public version 3.6.0, released 5 September 2024

 

License for all archival data is a special creative commons non-commercial license CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO, International Public license. CC0 used by NASA is only possible for an organisation related to one country not possible for a multinational organisation. For more information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo/

Earth, as seen from the VMC (visual monitoring camera) on spacecraft 3 on 5th June 2016:

The VMCs are installed in the umbilical separation connector bracket on the base of the upper spacecraft (CUS) in each Cluster pair, in order to take a series of 27 colour images of the lower spacecraft (CLS) during separation. An image of the separation is here and the other images of the Earth from June 2016 are on Flickr.