# earthdata-mcp-server

> NASA Earthdata search and download over MCP, as a reactor_mcp_server extension.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/earthdata-mcp-server/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/datalayer/earthdata-mcp-server
- repository: https://github.com/datalayer/earthdata-mcp-server
- version: 0.6.0
- license: BSD 3-Clause License
        
        Copyright (c) 2025, Datal…
- protocols: mcp
- tags: earthdata, mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:earthdata-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

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# 🪐 ✨ Earthdata MCP Server

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Earthdata MCP Server is a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) (MCP) server implementation that provides tools to interact with [NASA Earth Data](https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/).

It is built as a [`reactor_mcp_server`](https://pypi.org/project/reactor-mcp-server/) extension, so it runs two ways:

- **On its own**: `earthdata-mcp-server start` serves the Earthdata tools and nothing else, over stdio or streamable HTTP.
- **As a toolset**: installed beside any `reactor_mcp_server` host, it is discovered and served as the opt-in `earthdata` toolset to a client that asks for it: `/mcp?earthdata`. The [Datalayer MCP Server](https://datalayer.ai/docs/mcp/toolsets) serves it this way, next to notebooks and sandboxes.

The server is intentionally Earthdata-only. For notebook and runtime tools, serve it beside them on one host, or compose it with `jupyter-mcp-server` using [mcp-compose](https://github.com/datalayer/mcp-compose).

## Key Features

- Dataset discovery on NASA Earthdata
- Granule search with temporal and bounding box filters
- Flexible download workflow with explicit execution modes

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- code.execution (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/earthdata-mcp-server/ (first seen 2026-09-09T14:32:37.656Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/earthdata-mcp-server/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/earthdata-mcp-server · ARD identifier urn:air::server:earthdata-mcp-server