  While there have been far fewer missions to the outer Solar System than to
the inner Solar System, spacecraft destined for the giant planets have
conducted a wide range of fundamental investigations, returning data that
continues to reshape our understanding of these complex systems, sometimes
decades after the data were acquired. These data are preserved and accessible
from national and international planetary science archives. For all NASA
planetary missions and instruments the data are available from the science
discipline nodes of the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS). Looking ahead, the
PDS will be the primary repository for giant planets data from several upcoming
missions and derived datasets, as well as supporting research conducted to aid
in the interpretation of the remotely sensed giant planets data already
archived in the PDS.
