NASA

NASA integration on indie.money — query asteroids, space weather, and imagery from the NASA Open APIs

Written By pvdyck

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NASA

Supported — Retrieve astronomy, asteroid, space-weather, and Earth imagery data from the NASA Open APIs.

NodesNASA
AuthAPI Key via Secure Vault

Credential Setup

When configuring the NASA API credential in Secure Vault, provide:

  • API Key — your NASA Open API key, passed automatically as the api_key query parameter on every request.

Operations

Astronomy Picture of the Day

  • Get — fetch the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Optionally filter by date, and optionally download the image into a binary output field.

Asteroids (NeoWs)

  • Asteroid Neo-Feed → Get — retrieve asteroids by their closest approach date to Earth (optional start/end date range).
  • Asteroid Neo-Lookup → Get — look up a single asteroid by its NASA SPK-ID, optionally including close-approach data.
  • Asteroid Neo-Browse → Get Many — browse the overall asteroid dataset, with return-all or limit support.

DONKI (Space Weather Database) — each resource exposes a Get operation over an optional start/end date range:

  • DONKI Coronal Mass Ejection
  • DONKI High Speed Stream
  • DONKI Interplanetary Shock (additional Location and Catalog filters)
  • DONKI Magnetopause Crossing
  • DONKI Notification
  • DONKI Radiation Belt Enhancement
  • DONKI Solar Energetic Particle
  • DONKI Solar Flare
  • DONKI WSA+EnlilSimulation

Earth

  • Earth Imagery → Get — retrieve a Landsat image for a latitude/longitude, with optional date and degrees (image size), downloaded into a binary output field.
  • Earth Asset → Get — retrieve available Earth imagery assets for a latitude/longitude, with optional date and degrees.

Compatibility

All operations supported.