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SPICE The Planetary Science Division's
Ancillary Information System
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The Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) provides NASA planetary flight projects
and NASA funded professional planetary researchers an information system named
"SPICE" to assist scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations from space-based
instruments. SPICE is also widely used in engineering tasks associated with planetary missions.
SPICE is focused on solar system geometry (pdf).
The SPICE system includes a large suite of software, mostly in the form of subroutines that
customers incorporate in their own application programs to read SPICE files and to compute derived
observation geometry, such as altitude, latitude/longitude, and lighting angles.
SPICE data and software may be used within many popular computing environments.
The software is offered in FORTRAN, C, IDL® and MATLAB®.
NAIF serves as the "Navigation Node" of NASA's Planetary Data System,
archiving, and providing the science community access to, SPICE data from NASA's planetary exploration
missions. Archived SPICE data from a few non-NASA missions is also archived at NAIF.
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Announcements
(Most recent at top)
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The current version of the SPICE Toolkit, Version N63, was released
April 17, 2009. To see what's been added, fixed and changed relative to the previous release read the "whats.new" available on this website under the Toolkit link for the
language of interest to you, or see this same file in a Toolkit package you have downloaded.
Sign up to receive SPICE announcements at
SPICE Announce.
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