
Connects Claude to NASA's POWER API for long-term climate and energy resource data. Right now it exposes one tool: climatology queries that pull monthly averages for any coordinate. Useful when you're building energy models, planning solar installations, or need historical weather patterns without setting up your own NASA API integration. Part of the Pipeworx gateway, so you can either use this standalone or get it bundled with 600+ other data sources. Supports plain English queries through ask_pipeworx if you don't want to wrangle parameters yourself. Runs over streamable HTTP, works with Claude Desktop and similar clients.
NASA POWER MCP — solar irradiance and meteorology for agriculture / renewable energy modeling. Global coverage, decades of history. No auth.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
point_data(latitude, longitude, start, end, parameters?, community?) — hourly/daily/monthly observations for a single coordinateclimatology(latitude, longitude, parameters?, community?) — long-term monthly averagesregional_data(latitude_min, latitude_max, longitude_min, longitude_max, start, end, parameters?, community?) — bbox queryALLSKY_SFC_SW_DWN — solar irradiance (kWh/m²/day)T2M, T2M_MAX, T2M_MIN — 2-meter temperaturePRECTOTCORR — precipitationRH2M — relative humidityWS10M — wind speed at 10mCommunities (decides parameter set): AG (agriculture, default), RE (renewable energy), SB (sustainable buildings).
https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/ — public, no auth.
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"nasa-power": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-power/mcp"
}
}
}
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-power/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Nasa Power data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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