On July 26, 2023, at approximately 01:56 UTC, the SNPP spacecraft and all onboard instruments (including VIIRS) entered safe mode, pausing collection. All instruments are currently in a non-nominal state and all data lost while the instruments are in safe mode will not be recoverable. Data will not be released to the DAACs or the public until the calibration and validation team has approved its science quality. All data sets will experience a gap in temporal coverage.
NASA NSIDC DAAC will continue to post updates on our website https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/data-announcements as they become available.