Earth Science

The NASA Thesaurus contains the authorized NASA subject terms used to index and retrieve materials in the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database (NA&SD) and NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The scope of this controlled vocabulary includes not only aerospace engineering,…

Satellite-derived Ocean Color Data sets from historical and currently operational NASA and International Satellite missions including the NASA Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) (1978 – 1986), NASDA’s Ocean Color Temperature Scanner (OCTS) (1996 – 1997), NASA/GeoEYE Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor…

The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) represents a new platform for the Earth science community that provides a mechanism for scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing. NEX combines state-of-the-art supercomputing, Earth system modeling, workflow management, NASA remote sensing data feeds, and a…

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data products are currently available from 1998 to the present.The TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall. Global Precipitation Measurement data products will…

Beginning with the systematic mapping of the lunar surface more than three decades ago, this database contains over 1600 maps of the planets and satellites of the Solar System. This collection of maps is a unique resource that has been…

View detailed images of the planets, the sun, small bodies, and the Universe from various NASA exploration programs.

SERVIR is a Spanish acronym for “Regional Visualization and Monitoring System.” The SERVIR project enables the use of Earth observations and predictive models for timely decision making through regional platforms in Mesoamerica, East Africa, and the Hindu-Kush Himalayas.  The SERVIR project…

Available on Data.gov

The MY NASA DATA Project, part of NASA’s Research Education and Applications Solutions Network, works to make NASA Earth Science data accessible to the K-12 and citizen scientist commu- nities. The principal activity of the project is to create microsets…

Low resolution terrain imagery.

The Landsat 7 Download page provides a number of Landsat 7 scene subsets intended for use with Purdue University’s MultiSpec software.