The LAMBDA Mission

The Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) is a multi-mission NASA center of expertise for cosmic microwave background radiation research. LAMBDA exists to serve the CMB research community, and the greater cosmological research community. In particular, LAMBDA:

• develops and maintains data archives
• develops and maintains data access and analysis tools
• offers scientific expertise on NASA's CMB missions (MAP and COBE)
• carries out data-intensive processing of vital importance to NASA's CMB community
• conducts education and outreach efforts aimed at the general public

There is no cost involved in the use of LAMBDA; however, if your research benefits from its use, then we request that you include the following acknowledgement in your publications:

"We acknowledge the use of the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA). Support for LAMBDA is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science."