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
Snow/Ice News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Snow/Ice.
Who uses NASA Earth science data? David Mocko, for using land-surface models to study drought.
Data User Story
Dec. 22, 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
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
Data from NASA’s ICESat-2 mission provide incredibly accurate measurements of Earth elevation change—and much more.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
The Daymet dataset at NASA’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) provides nearly 40 years of environmental data about North America.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
The 1978 launch of NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite carrying the SMMR passive microwave sensor ushered in the modern satellite sea ice data record.
News
Nov. 4, 2020
A new data product merges data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, giving meteorologists and researchers access to a 20-year precipitation record.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
Image captured on 31 March 2019, by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Nov. 4, 2020
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