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This graphic, which is a piece of a larger image, shows high carbon monoxide concentrations over central Africa and southeast Asia December 2024.

NASA Is Releasing the Final Version of MOPITT's 25-Year Data Record

The new data products from the MOPITT instrument will offer enhanced data quality for vertical column densities of carbon monoxide in the troposphere.

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Aug. 12, 2025

A slim tree branch with scattered snowflakes on top and frozen raindrops hanging from its underside. Credit: Betty Copeland

Study Shows Citizen Scientists Are Crucial for Observing Rain and Snow During Storms

A CSESP-funded study found that AI is no better at identifying rain or snow in storms than people and conventional models.

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July 10, 2025

This image is a random mix of pink computered-generated pixel squares, gray-to-white cloud squares, and purple background squares. A majority of the image is colored with pink squares.

Applying AI to MODIS Data Analysis

Researchers taught the SatVision Top-of-Atmosphere foundation model to recognize MODIS imagery features.

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May 9, 2025

An ASTER image showing part of the San Quintín Glacier, the largest in southern Chile’s Northern Patagonia Icefield.

GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database provides timely data on more than 200,000 glaciers around the world.

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April 8, 2025

This image of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Plus Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Change in Lights (VIIRS+DMSP dLIGHT), v1 (1992, 2002, 2013) data from SEDAC's POPGRID Viewer shows change in nighttime lights data within India between 1992 and 2013.

Meeting the Demand for Data on Urban Areas

NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) has released a collection of 12 datasets focused on the urban environment.

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Feb. 7, 2025

A segment of an image of ASTER registered radiance data over Guatemala on January 8, 2018

NASA Begins Final ASTER Data Processing Campaign

The final processing of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data will make its archive more accessible to users.

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Jan. 21, 2025

This rectangular image shows the location of satellite-based fire detection targets overlaid on visible imagery of the Los Angeles area landscape. In the center of the image over Pacific Palisades, CA, are nearly 30 pink, light purple, and purple squares showing the location of suspected fires.

Why Do Fires on NASA's Maps Sometimes Look Bigger Than They Really Are?

Satellite-based maps offer quick first alerts and approximate locations of potential wildfires that are then precisely tracked and fought by teams on the ground.

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Jan. 13, 2025

Hurricane Ida is shown in bright swirling greens, yellows, and oranges against a dark background

Find Earthdata in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

The atlas now features NASA Earth science data formatted specifically for geographic information systems (GIS) users.

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Jan. 7, 2025

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NASA Is Releasing the Final Version of MOPITT's 25-Year Data Record

Study Shows Citizen Scientists Are Crucial for Observing Rain and Snow During Storms

Applying AI to MODIS Data Analysis

GLIMS Database Advances Glacier Monitoring from Space

Meeting the Demand for Data on Urban Areas

NASA Begins Final ASTER Data Processing Campaign

Why Do Fires on NASA's Maps Sometimes Look Bigger Than They Really Are?

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