• NSIDC's website will undergo planned maintenance on Wednesday, January 15, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (U.S. Mountain Time). During this time, the NSIDC.org website and most NSIDC data access may be briefly unavailable.

Data Announcement

User notice: SMAP data outage

SMAP data are currently experiencing a data outage. The SMAP Science Data Systems (SDS), located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is closed and unable to process data due to wildfire activity in the area. Data processing will resume when JPL reopens.