ESA DataLabs: an open science platform relevant to Heliophysics

ESA Datalabs is a collaborative scientific platform of the European Space Agency to exploit data across the ESA science directorate missions’ archives (astronomy, planetary and heliophysics). It allows you to bring your code to the data under a private account, shareable with colleagues. Large amount of data such as the GAIA multi-billion stars catalogues can be easily mounted and searchable, allowing large scale scientific investigations impossible to achieve on a regular laptop. It also provides multiple tools to access, process and visualize JWST data and was used during the recent commissioning of JWST. In other words, it handles both public and restricted access data.

In the heliophysics domain, data from a few missions are already mounted, including all public data from the Solar Orbiter mission. A few Jupyter notebooks are already available to help the community making use of the full capabilities of the ESA archives. More will be made available in the future including tools such as JHelioviewer and data mining. Interoperability is at the heart of the ESA datalabs infrastructure and connection to clouds such as the NASA heliocloud and Amazon Web Services accounts (AWS) are in progress. Developed over the past few years, ESA Datalabs is scheduled to be public to the scientific community in 2023.