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The part of SSDC that deals with Solar System exploration data aims at providing access and analysis capabilities to the data acquired by a number of instruments onboard several NASA and ESA planetary exploration missions with strong Italian participation.

Active planetary exploration missions with Italian participation
Mission	Space agency	Target	Launch year
Cassini-Huygens	NASA/ESA	Saturn system	1997
Mars Express	ESA	Mars	2003
Rosetta	ESA	Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko	2004
Mars Reconaissance Orbiter	NASA	Mars	2005
Venus Express	ESA	Venus	2005
Dawn	NASA	Vesta & Ceres	2007
Juno	NASA	Jupiter system	2011

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MATISSE - Multi-purpose Advanced Tool for the Instruments of the Solar System Exploration

MATISSE is the web based tool developed by SSDC SSE designed to access and visualize planetary exploration data. In particular it provides direct visualization of high order products, such as mosaics and ratios, over 3D shape models of selected targets, making scientific analysis easy, fast and accurate.
The ultimate aim of the tool is to enable "data fusion" in the planetary sciences, by means of an Intelligent Archive which is currently under development.
Thanks to MATISSE the scientific capabilities of each mission could be enhanced by combining observations taken by various instruments, studying different aspects of the same target.
On June 2018 version 1.5 of the MATISSE tool has been released, with the addition of noteworthy features, (read the quick user guide for more information).
However we are still collaborating with the scientific teams of the instruments involved to add other useful tasks to MATISSE in the near future.

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Reference Paper
MATISSE: A novel tool to access, visualize and analyse data from planetary exploration missions. Zinzi et al., Astronomy and Computing, 2016,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2016.02.006.

SSDC SSE participation to scientific meetings
Conference	Place / Date	Authors	Abstract	Presentation
XI Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie	Bormio (Italy) 4-8 Feb. 2013	Zinzi A. et al.	-	-
European Planetary Science Congress	London (UK) 8-13 Sep. 2013	Zinzi A. et al.	PDF	PDF
PV 2013	Frascati (Italy) 4-6 Nov. 2013	Zinzi A. et al.	PDF	PDF
European Planetary Science Congress	Cascais (Portugal) 7-12 Sep. 2014	Zinzi A. et al.	PDF	PDF
XIII Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie	Bormio (Italy) 21-26 Feb. 2016	Zinzi A. et al.	-	PDF