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Hi I'm an economics researcher relatively new to using Nasa Earthdata,

I've been attempting to download VNP46A1 (VIIRS/NPP Daily Gridded Day Night Band 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid Night) over the region of the democratic republic of the congo and Zambia from Jan 2015 - 2025. All my attempts at making requests to earthaccess seem to return that the data is not cloud-hosted. However I've just checked the Nasa website and it strangely seems to say that it is cloud-hosted, which seems inconsistent.

I was wondering if someone with a bit more expertise than myself could verify the veracity of this?

Best,
Rohan

Dear Rohan:
We checked and found all VNP46A1 product files for the period and spatial extent you are interested in on Earthdata Cloud (see attached screenshot). You can verify this by running the following search on the Earthdata Search tool:
https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2980666614-LAADS&pg[0][v]=f&pg[0][qt]=2015-01-01T00%3A00%3A00.000Z%2C2025-11-30T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&pg[0][gsk]=start_date&g=G3196984687-LAADS&q=VNP46A1&sb[0]=18.64763%2C-22.56221%2C37.632%2C5.387&lat=-8.587604474812736&long=33.5331048280217&zoom=1.7045441164738286