Maintaining Viking Science and Mission resources

The Viking Computer Facility continues operation at UW, preserving all resources and documentation, personally maintained by Tillman and supporters since 1995. Initially enhanced to extend the Mission's lifetime, its software, procedures, documentation and help files implement and describe the complete processes from real time downlink data through the engineering and science phases to finished Engineering and Meteorology data sets. It also can produce any science input data set for the mission. Highly automated, flexible, software procedures, and archiving of products in relational data bases, dramatically simplifies experiments, the development of upgraded and expanded versions of the Viking Meteorology resources... Access to a subset of the archived Viking Meteorology Data, "Mars Meteorological Data and Graphs: Pathfinder and Viking", are permanently maintained have and will continue to be maintained on the web. The VCF runs both its native operating system and Unix!