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News
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To celebrate GIS Day, take a peek at these illuminating examples of NASA Earth Science leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to understand our home planet.
Worldview Image of the Week
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Base corrected reflectance image acquired on Nov 12, 2024, with aerosol index overlaid with ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.

Featured Data Tools

From discovery to visualization, our data tools simplify and streamline your research.

Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data.
Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.
Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data.

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Earth Science Data Systems 2023 Fiscal Year Highlights

This is a chart showing over 3.5 billion files distributed in FY23 with a data volume of over 100 petabytes.
This is a chart showing the data archive growth projection to soar to over 500 petabytes by the year 2029.

2.7 billion

files distributed to end users

5+ million

distinct data and service users

100+ petabytes

of Earth science data available