• The data producer for the NSIDC-0051 data product has stopped forward processing; the final temporal coverage is 26 October 1978 to 31 December 2025. The data will remain available for download as a static product. As an alternative, the NSIDC-0803 (https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0803/) data product provides daily polar stereographic gridded brightness temperatures for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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This article covers frequently asked questions about the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata cloud migration project and what it means to data users.