SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture V006 Data

[bureau_eaiims]

Hi,

I’m reaching out on behalf of the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

We haven’t received any files matching the mask NSIDC-SMAP_L2_SM_P_E_*.h5 since 29th October
We were using old url "https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/SMAP/SPL2SMP_E.006/YYYY.MM.DD/" to download SMAP L2 products.

As old url is discontinued, we have received new url to download products from
new url: https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/site/collections/directory/NSIDC_CPRD/gov.nasa.eosdis


We would like to seek clarity on extension on the "SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture V006 Data" product files downloaded from
https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2938663676-NSIDC_CPRD/temporal/2026/02/03

We have found that some products have extension have .h5_pDJvhVoW extension and some have .h5

By definition HDF files have .h5 extension. Are both products same and we can ignore "_pDJvhVoW" from the extension?

Can we please get clarity on if both .h5 and .h5_pDJvhVoW products same and good to download or which products are correct to download?

thank you.