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Nov 29, 2003

Aqua MODIS Combined MODIS Terra ASTER Terra MODIS

On November 20, 2003, the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) data archive holdings at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota crossed the one petabyte thr…

Oct 15, 2003

On October 16, 2003, a Shopping Cart feature was added to the ASTER Browse Tool. This enables customers to order ASTER Level 1B data using the ASTER Browse Tool, with product distribution via FTP and several media options. The previous search and browse v…

Oct 01, 2003

A Memorandum of Understanding was made and entered into between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to place the active short- and long-term archives for experimental land remotely sensed data obt…

Oct 01, 2003

(Author's Note 2/24/2025: The EOS Data Gateway (EDG) tool has since been retired. Users are encouraged to use NASA Earthdata Search in place of EDG. Several of these datasets are also available in AppEEARS. To see the currently available tools to acc…

Feb 24, 2000

Terra MODIS

(Author's Notes
5/19/2020: At the time of publishing these references were available online, some resources may no longer be available.
2/20/2025: Place names in this news article were updated to reflect Executive Order No. 14172 and Secretary Order 34…

Jan 01, 2000

Terra ASTER

Visible/near Infrared (VNIR) Image (monochrome)

This ASTER image of the San Francisco River region in Brazil was recorded in the near-infrared wavelength region (band 3N). Bright clouds and their shadows obscure some of the area, but the the river and nume…