Delivery of Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite data products will cease on November 1, 2026. Data users should transition now to alternative products from NOAA-21 and NOAA-20.
Suomi NPP data announcement
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Image captured by the MODIS instrument on 12 July 2015, aboard the Aqua satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Sept. 11, 2020
Dr. Scheuchl and his team use SAR data to characterize Antarctica.
Data User Story
Aug. 8, 2020
New products reveal subtle surface features of Antarctica previously not perceptible.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
By the end of the 2002 season, the total area of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet had broken all known records.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
What might happen to the Antarctic food web if temperatures increase in the polar regions?
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The quiet forests of Canada may slowly be losing carbon, not from the trees themselves, but from the frozen soils underneath, where deep pools of carbon are locked within permafrost.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
20 years after NASA launched a new radar remote sensing instrument called a scatterometer on the Seasat satellite, data from that first scatterometer and its descendants have opened up new possibilities for scientists who study climate change.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
After a century of exploration and research, much remains unknown about the so-called seventh continent of Antarctica.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
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