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NASA Planetary API

The Planetary API from NASA — 1 operation(s) for planetary.

NASA Planetary API is one of 9 APIs that NASA publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Planetary. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.nasa.gov.

1 operations 1 paths 1 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0.0
Server
https://api.nasa.gov
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Planetary 1
GET
/planetary/apod
NASA Get Astronomy Picture of the Day
getApod 6 params → 200400403

Schemas 1

The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is ApodImage (9 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ApodImage
object
9 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nasa-planetary-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs NASA publishes across the network.

NASA Asset API
NASA Captions API
NASA DONKI API
NASA EPIC API
NASA Mars Photos API
NASA Metadata API
NASA Neo API
NASA Search API