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If they dumped every bit of data immediately upon reception other competing scientists could make the discoveries and publish them first. Which would defeat the primary point of being a mission scientist. Like it or not, the mission scientists get the chance to work with it first.
Quoting: Dr. Astro Do non-mission scientists get a crack at some point, say a year or more after the mission to see ALL the data (as you say) and publish their conclusions if they so choose? Edit: Answered part of my question by reading through K Hall's blog link above: "That said, the proprietary period is finite and usually rather short, to ensure that the instrument teams and winning proposers don't sit on the data: at the end of the period, the norm in space science is that all of the data become freely available to all scientists and the general public, world-wide. For example, all of the data from ESA's Herschel mission are now open to all via our archives, as are many of the data from Mars Express and our other missions."
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