Glossary
- DAAC (search)
Distributed Active Archive Center
- DAP (search)
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Data Analysis Program associated with a mission. There are many variants e.g., CDAP (Cassini Data Analysis Program), DDAP (Discovery Data Analysis Program), etc.
- Variants
- DOE (search)
Department of Energy
- DSN (search)
Deep Space Network
- dark matter (search)
- Nonluminous matter not yet directly detected by astronomers that is hypothesized to exist to account for various observed gravitational effects.
- dewar (search)
- A glass or metal container made like a vacuum bottle that is used especially for storing liquefied gases.
- Variants
- dynamical fluid (search)
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a fluid whose state is determined by conditions around it