Nasa MCP

🚀 NASA-MCP. Integration via MCP with NASA APIs

NASA-MCP enables you to directly retrieve astronomical data, space weather information, Earth imagery, and more from NASA's APIs through Claude AI and other MCP-compatible clients, leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This MCP server exposes tools that allow LLMs to query data from various NASA APIs, including APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), Asteroids NeoWs, DONKI (Space Weather Database), Earth imagery, EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera), and Exoplanet data. It also includes secure handling of API keys and proper error management for all API requests.

✨ Features

• Access to Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): Get explanations and imagery of the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• Query Near Earth Objects Data: Retrieve data and information about near-Earth asteroids.
• Retrieve Space Weather Data: Obtain space weather data from DONKI, including solar flares, geomagnetic storms, etc.
• Get Earth Imagery: Fetch Earth imagery from the Landsat 8 satellite for specific coordinates.
• Access EPIC Camera Images: View images from the EPIC camera showing the full Earth disk.
• Query Exoplanet Archive Database: Search for information about planets outside our solar system.

📦 Installation

Installing via Smithery

To automatically install the NASA API Integration Server for Claude Desktop via Smithery, use the following command:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @AnCode666/nasa-mcp --client claude

Install with uv

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• uv package manager

Installing uv

You can install uv, a Python package manager, from the command line.

On macOS and Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

On Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

You can also install it with pip:

pip install uv

For more information about installing uv, visit the uv documentation.

💻 Usage Examples

Once properly configured, you can ask questions like:

- "Show me today's astronomy picture of the day"
- "Find asteroids that will pass near Earth in the next week"
- "Get information about solar flares from January 2023"
- "Show me Earth imagery for coordinates 29.78, -95.33"
- "Find exoplanets in the habitable zone"

🚀 Quick Start

Integration with clients like Claude for Desktop

After installing uv, you can use the MCP server from any compatible client, such as Claude for Desktop. Here are the steps:

1. Navigate to Claude > Settings > Developer > Edit Config > claude_desktop_config.json.
2. Add the following block inside "mcpServers":

"nasa-mcp": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
        "nasa_mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
        "NASA_API_KEY": "YOUR_NASA_API_KEY"
    }
}

3. Obtain a free API key from NASA at: https://api.nasa.gov/.
4. Replace YOUR_NASA_API_KEY with your actual API key (keep the quotes). You can also use "DEMO_KEY" for limited testing.
5. If you already have another MCP server configured, separate each with a comma ,.

In general, to integrate it into any other MCP-compatible client, such as Cursor, CODEGPT, or Roo Code, simply go to the MCP server configuration of your client and add the same code block.