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Access National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) APIs

v1.0.0 · Jun 4, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

Provides functions to access and download data from various NASA APIs <https://api.nasa.gov/#browseAPI>, including: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), Mars Rover Photos, Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), Near Earth Object Web Service (NeoWs), Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET), and NASA Earthdata CMR Search. Most endpoints require a NASA API key for access. Data is retrieved, cleaned for analysis, and returned in a dataframe-friendly format.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies httr jsonlite magick dplyr nasa

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new 1.0.0 Mar 10, 2026

R Observatory began tracking this package on Mar 10, 2026; it first appeared on CRAN Jun 4, 2025. Releases before tracking aren’t shown.