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July 1, 2022

NSIDC DAAC Joins NASA’s EOSDIS Earthdata Forum

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is pleased to announce its participation in NASA’s Earthdata Forum. Earthdata Forum provides a central online location… Read more »

May 5, 2022

New version available: Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 2

The Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves data set (NSIDC-0102), accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated to Version 2…. Read more »

January 12, 2022

Data set update: MODIS Collection 6.1 Snow Cover and Sea Ice data sets

The MODIS Collection 6.1 Snow Cover and Sea Ice data sets, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), were released in… Read more »

October 28, 2021

Ongoing changes in Terra and Aqua orbits impacting MODIS snow and sea ice products

The Terra flight operations team conducted Terra’s last inclination adjust maneuver to maintain Terra’s orbit in February 2020. The inclination adjust maneuvers were used to control the platform’s 10:30 AM mean local… Read more »

September 23, 2021

MOD10A1F / MYD10A1F Error Notice

It was discovered that data from the MODIS/[Terra/Aqua] CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid, Version 61 products, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center… Read more »

January 25, 2021

Data set update: Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS

The Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS, Version 1 data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center… Read more »

January 7, 2021

User Notice: MODIS Terra Printed Wire Assembly (PWA) failure

On October 5, 2020 MODIS Terra experienced a Printed Wire Assemblies (PWA) failure. This failure caused partial to full science data loss where the data could not be played back… Read more »

October 28, 2020

New data set release: MODIS/Aqua CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid

The MODIS/Aqua CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid, Version 6.1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC… Read more »

September 21, 2020

New data set release: MODIS/Terra CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid

The MODIS/Terra CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid, Version 6.1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive… Read more »

May 20, 2019

Level of service update: Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS

The Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS, Version 1 data set has been updated to a standard level of service at the NASA National… Read more »

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