NASA Open APIs

NASA Vesta/Moon/Mars Trek WMTS

A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) for the Vesta, Moon, and Mars Trek imagery projects. Standardized OGC WMTS tiles consumable by Leaflet, OpenLayers, ArcGIS, and QGIS for planetary mapping applications.

NASA Vesta/Moon/Mars Trek WMTS is one of 17 APIs that NASA Open APIs publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Maps, WMTS, Mars, Moon, and Vesta. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

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Documentation

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Documentation

https://trek.nasa.gov/

Specifications

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OpenAPI

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/openapi/trek-wmts-openapi.yml

OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: NASA Vesta/Moon/Mars Trek WMTS
  description: |
    A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) for the Vesta, Moon, and Mars Trek imagery projects. Standardized OGC WMTS
    tiles consumable by Leaflet, OpenLayers, ArcGIS, and QGIS for planetary mapping applications.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: NASA Trek
    url: https://trek.nasa.gov/
  license:
    name: US Government Work (Public Domain)
servers:
- url: https://trek.nasa.gov
paths:
  /tiles/{body}/EQ/{layer}/1.0.0/default/default028mm/{z}/{y}/{x}.{ext}:
    get:
      summary: Get a Trek WMTS Tile
      operationId: getTrekTile
      tags:
      - WMTS
      parameters:
      - name: body
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Mars
          - Moon
          - Vesta
      - name: layer
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Layer identifier within the Trek body catalog.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: z
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: y
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: x
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: ext
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - png
          - jpg
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A WMTS map tile.
          content:
            image/png:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary
            image/jpeg:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary