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Dear Piyush:
The data are in process and hopefully will be available by end of the week.

Data are available till July 4 now.

There were missing L0 data for Terra on day 180 and for Aqua on day 184, so that hold up processing for the respective instruments, starting from respective days.

From where are you trying to download data, ladsweb, nrt, or Earthdata Cloud? Can you provide some example URLs to investigate?

All servers are working normally at the moment. It could be a temporary issue which does not exist anymore.

Yes, you should access files from the bucket if available on ladsweb.

No, there are no python code examples available at LAADS. However, you may want to check with "HDF-EOS TOOLS AND INFORMATION CENTER", they have Python code example to work with MODIS data. Their website is
https://www.hdfeos.org/

Yes, you are correct.

You can explore LAADS API interface to automate NRT data download. You can find information including quick start guide and API specification at: https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tools-and-services/#api-v2 A sample call would look like: https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/v2/content/archiv...

The issue is that HDF5 is a binary format, not a text format. There is no text encoding that will work to decode it as text (as you are seeing). The script does also read csv or json files from the web site, to get the directory listings, so it needs to be able to read both text and binary data. Unf...