What's New

	If you're looking for the Planetary Data System Geosciences Node web site, use this URL: http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/.
	Several Laboratory personnel are participating in the two Mars Exploration Rover missions. Follow the progress of Spirit and Opportunity on the JPL web site, and get to the latest science data from the Geosciences Node MER web page.

About the EPRSL

The Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory is part of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University. It is located in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, on the second floor, south wing of the new Earth and Planetary Sciences Building. Dr. Raymond Arvidson is the director.

Laboratory staff and graduate student research focus on surface processes and histories of Earth, Mars, and Venus. Students are also actively involved in the Laboratory as a part of innovative undergraduate courses such as the Pathfinder Program in Environmental Sustainability, in which multidisciplinary approaches to environmental problems are stressed with plenty of hands-on experience.

The Laboratory is the location of NASA's PDS Geosciences Node and Regional Planetary Image Facility. Laboratory personnel are involved in NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rover, the European Space Agency's Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Phoenix Mars Lander Missions.  They are responsible for creating and distributing science data archives from planetary missions, working closely with the missions to ensure that the archives are complete and well-documented.

All these activities are supported by a computer system that hosts hundreds of gigabytes of planetary data online for public access through the Geosciences Node.