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Read the latest news stories, feature articles, user stories, and blog posts that feature data archived by NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

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Changes in the calving front of Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier between 1942 and 2006.

Collecting Data at a Glacial Pace: The Greenland Ice Mapping Project

Greenland’s more than 200 major outlet glaciers are constantly on the move—many of them at some of the fastest speeds ever recorded.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

SMAP's rotating golden antenna functions like a satellite dish to focus radio waves from Earth's surface into a collector on the spacecraft

Rounding up Data with a Golden Lasso: Getting Soil Moisture Data from SMAP to DAAC

NASA's SMAP team turns raw satellite data into more than a dozen data products for data users around the world.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

Olympic National Park mule packer Daniel Boone Jones leads a team of mules carrying OLYMPEX ground instruments, batteries, and supplies to field sites.

Collecting Data from the Ground Up: NASA's Ground Validation Field Campaigns

Ground validation campaigns connect the dots between what is being remotely-sensed by a satellite instrument and ongoing Earth processes.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

AppEEARS 2.0: New Features and Data to Further Improve User Workflow Efficiency

The latest enhancements to the AppEEARS program provide access to more datasets along with greater flexibility for working with Earth observing data from NASA and other federal data archives.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

In Memoriam: Dr. Roger Barry (1935 - 2018)

The cryosphere expert and University of Colorado Distinguished Professor of Geography was the founding director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

Terra MODIS image of dust blowing off Mar Chiquita on September 10, 2013

Nearly 20 Years of Change at Your Fingertips

Interactively explore your world your way with nearly 20 years of MODIS global imagery and the EOSDIS Worldview data visualization application.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

New Data From Old Satellites: A Nimbus Success Story

After being in storage for more than 40 years, data recovered from NASA's Nimbus I, II, and III missions are extending the polar sea ice record back to the 1960s and giving scientists new views of this changing environment.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

Terra: The Hardest Working Satellite in Earth Orbit

Since 1999, NASA’s Terra Earth observing satellite has completed more than 100,000 orbits. The instrument data from this workhorse satellite has resulted in one of the longest continuous data records of our planet ever recorded from space.

Feature Article

Nov. 4, 2020

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NSIDC DAAC News

Collecting Data at a Glacial Pace: The Greenland Ice Mapping Project

Rounding up Data with a Golden Lasso: Getting Soil Moisture Data from SMAP to DAAC

Collecting Data from the Ground Up: NASA's Ground Validation Field Campaigns

AppEEARS 2.0: New Features and Data to Further Improve User Workflow Efficiency

In Memoriam: Dr. Roger Barry (1935 - 2018)

Nearly 20 Years of Change at Your Fingertips

New Data From Old Satellites: A Nimbus Success Story

Terra: The Hardest Working Satellite in Earth Orbit

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