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NSIDC DAAC News
Read the latest news stories, feature articles, user stories, and blog posts that feature data archived by NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
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Who uses NASA Earth science data? Ben Holt, to study polar sea ice, coastal oceanography, and marine pollution
Data User Story
Dec. 21, 2020
VIIRS I-band (375 m) Active Fire and Corrected Reflectance products are the newest near real-time products available through LANCE.
News
Nov. 4, 2020
Greenland’s more than 200 major outlet glaciers are constantly on the move—many of them at some of the fastest speeds ever recorded.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
NASA's SMAP team turns raw satellite data into more than a dozen data products for data users around the world.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
Ground validation campaigns connect the dots between what is being remotely-sensed by a satellite instrument and ongoing Earth processes.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
The latest enhancements to the AppEEARS program provide access to more datasets along with greater flexibility for working with Earth observing data from NASA and other federal data archives.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
After being in storage for more than 40 years, data recovered from NASA's Nimbus I, II, and III missions are extending the polar sea ice record back to the 1960s and giving scientists new views of this changing environment.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
The cryosphere expert and University of Colorado Distinguished Professor of Geography was the founding director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
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