HDF-EOS 5 is a new format based on HDF5 that is designed to resemble the existing HDF-EOS 2 format. It supports the same data structures as HDF-EOS 2 but uses HDF5 functionality like compression and chunking. A conversion tool allows data to be changed from HDF-EOS 2 to HDF-EOS 5 format. While HDF-EOS 2 will still be supported, HDF-EOS 5 will be used by new missions like Aura and provides more options for data storage and filtering.