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api.nasa.gov

Aggregated NASA Open APIs hub at api.nasa.gov. Includes Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), Asteroids NeoWs, DONKI (Space Weather), Earth Imagery, EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker), EPIC, Exoplanet Archive, Open Science Data Repository, Insight (Mars weather), Mars Rover Photos, NASA Image and Video Library, TechTransfer, Satellite Situation Center, SSD/CNEOS, Techport, TLE API, and Vesta. Auth via api.data.gov key (rate limited per the gateway's tiers).

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Documentation

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Authentication
https://api.data.gov/signup/

Other Resources

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Portal
https://api.nasa.gov
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GitHubOrganization
https://github.com/nasa

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: api.nasa.gov
description: Aggregated NASA Open APIs hub at api.nasa.gov. Includes Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD),
  Asteroids NeoWs, DONKI (Space Weather), Earth Imagery, EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker),
  EPIC, Exoplanet Archive, Open Science Data Repository, Insight (Mars weather), Mars Rover Photos, NASA
  Image and Video Library, TechTransfer, Satellite Situation Center, SSD/CNEOS, Techport, TLE API, and
  Vesta. Auth via api.data.gov key (rate limited per the gateway's tiers).
humanURL: https://api.nasa.gov
baseURL: https://api.nasa.gov
tags:
- Federal
- NASA
- Open Data
- Science
- api.data.gov
properties:
- type: Portal
  url: https://api.nasa.gov
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/nasa
- type: Authentication
  url: https://api.data.gov/signup/