NASA
NASA integration on indie.money — query asteroids, space weather, and imagery from the NASA Open APIs
Written By pvdyck
Last updated About 1 hour ago
NASA
✅ Supported — Retrieve astronomy, asteroid, space-weather, and Earth imagery data from the NASA Open APIs.
Credential Setup
When configuring the NASA API credential in Secure Vault, provide:
- API Key — your NASA Open API key, passed automatically as the
api_keyquery 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.