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Terra MODIS experienced a data outage stemming from the Science Formatter Equipment (SFE) Assembly. All data between time stamps 2017/114 0320 and 2017/114 1950 are unavailable and likely unrecoverable. Level 3… Read more »
Data Announcements: MODIS 
Point Extraction for MODIS Snow Cover Data
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… Read more »
NSIDC Polaris Search and Order being Retired 15 February 2017
THE NSIDC Polaris Search and Order tool will be retired on 15 February 2017. Please contact NSIDC User Services via email: nsidc@nsidc.org with questions.
All MODIS Snow Cover Data Sets Now Available in Version 6
The final four MODIS snow cover data sets are now available in Version 6 at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC): MODIS/Terra… Read more »
More Version 6 MODIS Snow Cover Data Sets Now Available
Four more Version 6 MODIS snow cover data sets are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC): MODIS/Terra Snow Cover… Read more »
MODIS Swath, 500 m Gridded Snow Cover Data Now Available in Version 6
Four Version 6 MODIS snow cover data sets are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC): Data Set DOI MODIS/Terra… Read more »
MODIS Version 6 Sea Ice Reprocessing Complete
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is pleased to announce that Version 6 (Collection 6) reprocessing is complete for our MODIS sea ice… Read more »
NSIDC DAAC Releases Version 6 MODIS Sea Ice Data
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is pleased to announce that users can now obtain Version 6 (Collection 6) MODIS sea ice… Read more »
Reprocessed MODIS Data Now Available
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been informed that our data provider, MODAPS, identified corrupt files that may have impacted previously forward… Read more »
MODIS Data Delays
NSIDC is experiencing delays receiving some MODIS data sets from our data provider. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact User Services if you have questions.
