• The NSIDC DAAC is retiring access to its legacy, on-premises data archive and transitioning to the NASA Earthdata Cloud as the primary data archive. View planned retirement dates here.

MODIS

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Data Announcements

The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples ( AppEEARS), a web based data extraction and visualization tool, can now be used to explore MODIS snow cover datasets. Point samples
By Laura Naranjo In 1972, astronauts aboard the NASA Apollo 17 spacecraft snapped the first full-view image of Earth. The iconic photo was later dubbed “The Blue Marble.” Since then, NASA has sent an