Earth observation, demystified.
The friendly way to understand and navigate Earth observation — built on NASA's open data, plus free layers from NOAA, ESA and others where they help answer real questions. Every satellite, dataset, science question and recipe, in plain language and four languages. Browse and learn here in your browser; download ready-to-run notebooks to do the analysis wherever you like.
What do you want to know?
Where do you want to start?
20 missions watching Earth right now
The official NASA tools
NASA's catalog system — every dataset, granule, and collection, searchable via REST API. Every NASA Earth-data tool rides on it.
Pre-rendered satellite imagery as map tiles — 1000+ layers, the same feed that powers NASA Worldview.
The interactive browser for GIBS imagery — pan, zoom, and step through time across the full satellite record.
NASA's data is open — and there's a lot of it.
NASA's catalog is bureaucratic; Worldview is powerful but dense; Wikipedia is fragmented. This Atlas is the friendly map: what exists, where it lives, and why it matters — the door to CMR, GIBS, and Worldview, reframed for a non-NASA-fluent reader.
Think Our World in Data, but for NASA's satellites and Earth-science datasets.
Find it, download it, run it.
- Pick a question that matters to you — real problems, in plain language.
- Get the exact datasets and a ready-to-run notebook, with the honest caveats.
- Download and run it anywhere — change the area, dates, and thresholds for your own case.