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Earth Science Data Roundup: May 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in April 2025.

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May 13, 2025

MOPITT is Retiring

After 25 years, the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument ceased observing carbon monoxide (CO) in the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2025.

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May 6, 2025

A piece of a larger ECOSTRESS image showing the impact of center-pivot irrigation in the state of Kansas.

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in February 2025.

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March 6, 2025

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New Jupyter Notebook GitHub Repository Offers Tips and Scripts for Using NASA’s Atmospheric Data

NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) GitHub hosts tutorials, code, and guides to help Earth science data users address air quality and other environmental challenges.

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Feb. 13, 2025

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument collected its “first light” measurements of nitrogen dioxide air pollution over North America on August 2, 2023. This image shows TEMPO measurements of nitrogen dioxide over Southern California at 12:14 pm EDT.

TEMPO V03 Products Achieve Provisional Validation Status

More than a dozen Level 1, 2, and 3 data products from NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) Version 03 collection are now available at provisional maturity.

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Dec. 16, 2024

A visualization of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data over northern Mongolia on October 20, 2023, from the ECOSTRESS ECO_L2T_STARS V002 product.

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in November 2024.

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Dec. 4, 2024

Against a bright yellow and orange background, a dark shape with a glowing light-yellow center dominates the center of this data visualization of Hawaii climate.

Celebrate GIS Day 2024

To celebrate GIS Day, take a peek at these illuminating examples of NASA Earth Science leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to understand our home planet.

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Nov. 20, 2024

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Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2024

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in October 2024.

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Nov. 4, 2024

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Earth Science Data Roundup: May 2025

MOPITT is Retiring

Earth Science Data Roundup: March 2025

New Jupyter Notebook GitHub Repository Offers Tips and Scripts for Using NASA’s Atmospheric Data

TEMPO V03 Products Achieve Provisional Validation Status

Earth Science Data Roundup: December 2024

Celebrate GIS Day 2024

Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2024

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