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Suomi NPP is no longer delivering new data. Users must transition to alternative products. Suomi NPP data announcement

Blog posts from the Earthdata community provide an insider's look at how technologies—such as foundation models, geographic information systems, and visualization tools—play a role in optimizing the impact of Earth science data.

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Black Marble Nighttime Blue/Yellow Composite (Day/Night Band) false-color image shows Typhoon Khanun nearing Taiwan on August 2, 2023.

Transitioning From Suomi NPP to NOAA-20 and NOAA-21: What LANCE Users Need to Know

Information on what the cessation of Suomi NPP data means for users of LANCE data products, with recommended replacement datasets.

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Nov. 3, 2026

FIRMS image of fires over southeast Asia along with aerosol index data

Transitioning from Suomi NPP VIIRS & OMPS: What FIRMS Users Need to Know

We provide information on what this change means for your workflows and the recommended replacement datasets you can use in FIRMS to ensure uninterrupted fire monitoring.

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Oct. 27, 2026

view of FIRMS application showing aerosol data

New Higher-Resolution Aerosol Index, Pyrocumulonimbus Layers Now Available in NASA FIRMS

New NOAA-21 OMPS products complement existing NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP indices currently available in FIRMS, but offer a significant upgrade in spatial resolution.

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Oct. 13, 2026

SAR land data image with globe pattern overlay

From ERS-1 to NISAR: 35 Years of SAR at ASF

August 2026 marks 35 years since the first downlink of synthetic aperture radar data to the Alaska SAR Facility. ASF has supported many missions and archived many Earth observations since then.

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Aug. 17, 2026

Taken from the International Space Station (ISS), this photograph shows the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, at the southern end of icebound Green Bay, a basin of Lake Michigan. The heavy snowfalls of winter 2014 cover the landscape.

Historical Data-in-Action: Less Predictable Winter Weather in Wisconsin

The Global Land Data Assimilation System Noah hydrologic model offers a tool for checking how winter weather changed from 1977-1978 to 2018-2019.

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July 24, 2026

Connecting Federal Agencies to Earth Observations: The Impactful Legacy of Data Curation for Discovery

Now part of NASA's SNWG Implementation TEam, the Data Curation for Discovery project team celebrates its role in enhancing discovery of Earth science solutions.

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July 10, 2026

satellite swath patterns from the FIRMS application over Africa

New FIRMS Data Product: Satellite Swath Outlines

NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System now provides swath outlines, showing the extent of Earth's surface within view of a sensor.

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June 25, 2026

A map from the MERRA-2 models shows sea level pressure over Western Europe in December 1999.

Historical Data in Action: Western Europe’s Storm of the Century

We used data from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) to re-examine back-to-back December 1999 storms.

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April 14, 2026

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