Data in the ESA Planetary Science Archive: A cookbook to access them

The ESA Planetary Science Archive (PSA) hosted at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA/ESAC) is a multi-mission archive currently supporting ten planetary missions, from missions beyond their post-operations phase to missions currently being operated. The data are being archived following the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) Standard (version 3 or 4, depending on the mission). Missions currently in operations or within their cruise phase, such as ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), BepiColombo, and JUICE, archive the data in PDS4 format and follow the concept of operational archiving, where data are regularly generated and delivered to the PSA in small batches (e.g. daily). The PSA provides various means to access these data: through a web User Interface (UI), a secure FTP server, or via programmatic access with the EuroPlaNet Table Access Protocol (EPN-TAP) to the data holdings. The PSA supports data access with different proprietary status (either public or private when within their proprietary period) to ensure adequate support to the mission instrument teams. Ongoing developments with the integration of the PSA in the ESA Datalabs platform open additional ways to access and visualise the data directly from a web browser. In this work, we will illustrate the different means of searching for, downloading, and using the PDS4 planetary data archived in the PSA.