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DMSP Data Discontinued

Datasets available through the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) will no longer be available after June 30, 2025.
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Wildfires in Chios, Greece

Image captured June 23, 2025, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-21 platform.

Featured Data Tools

From discovery to visualization, our data tools simplify and streamline your research.

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Earthdata Search

Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings.
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Earthdata GIS

Earthdata GIS is a resource for distributing cloud-native, GIS-ready NASA Earth science data and services, including over 200 raster and feature geospatial services as well as resources such as thematic applications and ArcGIS StoryMaps.
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GUARDIAN

The GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) is a near real-time (NRT) ionospheric monitoring tool for natural hazards warning.

Open Science

We empower a collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge. Our open data, services, and software policies ensure that data are fully available to any user for any purpose.

Earth Science Data Systems 2024 Fiscal Year Highlights

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This bar chart and line graph shows total data volume and data files distributed by year for fiscal year 2024.
This is a chart showing the data archive growth projection up to fiscal year 2024.

+4.5 billion

files distributed to end users

8+ million

distinct data and service users

128+ petabytes

of Earth science data available