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CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has released 300 terabytes of collider data to the public. "Once we've exhausted our exploration of the data, we see no reason not to make them available publicly," said Kati Lassila-Perini, a physicist who works on the Compact Muon Solenoid detector. "The benefits are numerous, from inspiring high school students to the training of the particle physicists of tomorrow. And personally, as CMS's data preservation coordinator, this is a crucial part of ensuring the long-term availability of our research data," she said in a news release accompanying the data. Much of the data is from 2011, and much of it is from protons colliding at 7 TeV (teraelectronvolts). The 300 terabytes of data includes both raw data from the detectors and "derived" datasets. CERN is providing tools to work with the data which is handy.
Data from most NASA astronomy satellites is available after a specified amount of time.
e.g. Hubble Space Telescope data are available after one year, and Fermi gamma-ray space telescope data are available as soon as it's processed (within one day).
Software tools are also publicly available along with software support.
Nice to see particle physicists catching up with astronomers on data release!