In response to requirements outlined in the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA), NASA launched the Web Modernization Project to consolidate the agency's multitude of websites into nasa.gov or science.nasa.gov. NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program followed suit and launched the Web Unification Project in December 2021 to migrate all ESDS-funded web properties to earthdata.nasa.gov by the end of 2026.

Beginning in October 2024, updates will take place on the public-facing Earthdata website. These changes will include the migration of NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) websites (including cddis.nasa.gov) to the Earthdata website.

What will this mean for you? With these changes, only the interface that you use to access CDDIS information and web content will change to one unified experience; the paths for finding and downloading our data will not change (located at https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/; Earthdata Login required to access). By combining NASA’s DAACs into the Earthdata website, ESDS aims to improve data discoverability and data findability and build efficient pathways for data users to access data and information.

CDDIS is currently undergoing the transition from cddis.nasa.gov to earthdata.nasa.gov, which is scheduled for completion in June 2025. We ask you to please be aware of these coming changes. We will do everything we can to ensure that you have as seamless a transition as is possible (with redirects, etc.).

We want to reassure all our users that your data will still be available in the same place and the same URL in our archive (located at https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/; Earthdata Login required to access). This will not affect how or where you access our data. It will, however, affect where you see our web content, as we join the Earthdata website.

To learn about the DAAC website migration schedule, to view the new user path options for finding the DAAC data resources you need, and to learn how to get support during this transition, view our recent webinar, “Web Unification: Optimizing Your Access to NASA Earth Science Data”.

Please contact us for more information or questions.

Thank you for your patience during our transition.