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A format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. The FITS Support Office is responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in FITS format.

Advances NASA programs through the exploration of Earth and Planetary solid-body physics. These explorations involve the physics and dynamics of the Earth, as well as of other planets and their satellites.

MPLNET,funded by the NASA Earth Observing System, is a worldwide network of micro-pulse lidar (MPL) systems providing long-term data sets of cloud and aerosol vertical distributions at key sites around the world.

One of four science themes within the Office of Space Science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Launch site on Virginia's Eastern Shore.