Delivery of Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite data products will cease on November 1, 2026. Data users should transition now to alternative products from NOAA-21 and NOAA-20.
Suomi NPP data announcement
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The VIIRS instrument aboard NOAA-20 captured these images of fires near the Yenisei River.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 17, 2026
The VIIRS instrument aboard NOAA-21 acquired data for a time-lapse animation of the fire in this national park.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 22, 2026
False-color Terra MODIS imagery and a snow cover index help distinguish clouds from snow on May 7, 2026.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 8, 2026
The MODIS instrument aboard the Terra platform captured this image on April 27, 2026.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 1, 2026
The VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-21 platform captured this image on April 21, 2026.
Worldview Image of the Week
April 24, 2026
Data overlays from Worldview show precipitation rates and sea surface temperatures in mid-April 2026, as the storm moved across the western Pacific.
Worldview Image of the Week
April 17, 2026
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.
Blog
April 14, 2026
NASA significantly enhanced its MODIS and VIIRS near real-time flood products, enabling users to distinguish between unusual and recurring flooding.
Blog
April 10, 2026