Data Announcement
  • Soil moisture

Aquarius/SAC-D Mission Ends

Due to a power failure on the Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D spacecraft on 08 June 2015, data from NASA’s Aquarius instrument are no longer being produced. For more information on this event, please refer to the official NASA announcement.

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will continue to distribute Aquarius soil moisture and polar-gridded data sets for the full duration of the mission, 25 August 2011 to 07 June 2015.

Learn more about the NSIDC DAAC Aquarius data collection.