Back to today’s briefing

Story perspectives

Microsoft and NASA Unveil Climate Data for Researchers

10/18/2025

39 7

Summary

Story summary

Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 dataset available on the Planetary Computer via Azure, enabling researchers to analyze Earth data for climate, agriculture, and water studies.
Users access the data through APIs or Azure Storage.
The partnership includes the NASA Earth Copilot AI assistant.
The collaboration could advance climate science, though concerns exist about environmental impacts from data centers used for AI.

1 of 1

Story summary

Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 dataset available on the Planetary Computer via Azure, enabling researchers to analyze Earth data for climate, agriculture, and water studies.
Users access the data through APIs or Azure Storage.
The partnership includes the NASA Earth Copilot AI assistant.
The collaboration could advance climate science, though concerns exist about environmental impacts from data centers used for AI.