If anybody at NASA is reading, please make the original FITS / raw files for things more accessible. There's too much of a chasm between rendered images which are quickly and freely shared with the public, and with the kafkaesque journey I have to go through to get access to raw data (which most of the time is only released months/years later, if at all). I know the vast majority of the public has no use for the raws, but for amateur/citizen scientists it'd be nice for them to be more readily/easily accessible.
If anybody at NASA is reading, please make the original FITS / raw files for things more accessible. There's too much of a chasm between rendered images which are quickly and freely shared with the public, and with the kafkaesque journey I have to go through to get access to raw data (which most of the time is only released months/years later, if at all). I know the vast majority of the public has no use for the raws, but for amateur/citizen scientists it'd be nice for them to be more readily/easily accessible.