The great minds at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have always known that by analyzing what they’ve already accomplished — in data, documents, videos and images — they could save months of time and millions of dollars, and even enable breakthrough discoveries. However, every mission has its own unique data sets and tools are constantly evolving, creating challenges for engineers and scientists who want to quickly search and analyze petabytes of disparate data that in some cases had been created decades apart.

Technology has finally caught up to JPL’s dream. Its interactive search and analytics project uses open development technologies, methodologies and tools on cloud platforms to unlock the data.

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