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    • NASA Thesaurus

    Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

    The NASA Thesaurus contains the authorized NASA subject terms used to index and retrieve materials in the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) and the NTRS Registered (Formerly NA&SD). The scope of this controlled vocabulary includes not only aerospace engineering, but all supporting areas of engineering and physics, the natural space sciences (astronomy, astrophysics, planetary science), Earth sciences, and the biological sciences. The NASA Thesaurus contains over 18,400 subject terms, 4,300 definitions, and more than 4,500 USE cross references.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
    Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier NASA-0000092
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    Category Management/Operations
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/nasa-thesaurus
    Program Code 026:046
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 400eae1cf359ca7531a22b621c4d4bf7b99f7acd45593cfbe695beed0febba70
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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