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Screenshot of the ACCESS Sta3cd project

Providing ACCESS to EOSDIS Data

NASA’s ACCESS Program helps create and enhance technologies that make EOSDIS data more available for global interdisciplinary research.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
The image above shows a revised mosaic map of Antarctica produced by the RAMP project.

RAMPing Up

The RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Project provides the world's first high-resolution map of Antarctica.
Feature Article
Sept. 11, 2020
A man stands in the middle of the Karakoram Highway while rocks tumble down into the Hunza River in Pakistan’s Gojal region.

Waiting for Gojal

Scientists and satellites hold vigil on a newborn lake in Pakistan.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
A researcher observes the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2001. (Image courtesy of Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder).

Vanishing Ice

By the end of the 2002 season, the total area of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet had broken all known records.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
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