NASA MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA_API_KEY | No | Optional NASA API key. Without it, uses DEMO_KEY (30 req/hr, 50/day per IP). Get a free key at https://api.nasa.gov/ | DEMO_KEY |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| nasa_daily_briefA | Get a compact NASA daily brief: today's astronomy image, recent space-weather notices, active Earth events, and the latest DSCOVR full-disc Earth image. Returns partial results if an upstream NASA service is down. |
| nasa_apodA | Get NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for a date, or a small random sample. Returns image/video URLs, title, credit, and a bounded explanation. |
| nasa_search_mediaA | Search NASA's public image, video, and audio library. Returns compact metadata plus preview/original links and NASA media IDs. |
| nasa_media_assetA | Resolve a NASA media ID to its downloadable image, video, audio, caption, and metadata files. |
| nasa_earth_eventsA | Find current or recent natural events from NASA EONET, including storms, wildfires, volcanoes, floods, sea/lake ice, dust, drought, and landslides. Returns latest coordinates and source links. |
| nasa_space_weatherA | Get recent NASA DONKI space-weather reports: notifications, solar flares, CMEs, geomagnetic storms, solar energetic particles, interplanetary shocks, magnetopause crossings, radiation-belt enhancements, or high-speed streams. |
| nasa_epic_earthA | Get DSCOVR/EPIC full-disc Earth images with direct PNG/JPG/thumbnail URLs and spacecraft geometry. Keyless NASA endpoint. |
| nasa_power_dailyA | Get historical daily NASA POWER weather, solar-resource, or agricultural data for one latitude/longitude. This is analysis-ready historical data, not a forecast. Returns compact columnar series with units. |
| nasa_power_climatologyA | Get NASA POWER monthly and annual climatology for one latitude/longitude using the standard 2001-2020 baseline. Useful for typical weather, rainfall, wind, solar potential, and growing conditions; not a forecast. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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