Arctic Dreams is packed with data: about the crystallography of frazil ice, or the thermodynamics of polar-bear hair.
The main NASA app is free on phones with either Apple's iOS or Google's Android operating system, and is packed with data in different categories, from active missions to how to spot spacecraft like the International Space Station flying over your head at night.
It is packed with data on health care treatment and outcomes for many diseases affecting minority groups and the poor.
"It is important that we don't give up basic rights in order to use the products and services of the future," Myrstad adds, pointing to general trend of more and more connected devices being packed with data-collecting sensors.
The internet is packed with information.
As she has pointed out, the mobile devices we carry with us everywhere are packed with confidential information under operating systems that never securely erase data.
The 60 million computers used in American households are packed with words, photographs, family financial data, calendars, addresses and telephone numbers.
The biggest of these data factories are packed with 400,000 servers and consume 250 megawatts of power, half the output of a small nuclear power plant.
Prisons are packed with them.
