This document discusses STARE-PODS, a proposal to NASA/ACCESS-19 to develop a scalable data store for earth science data using the SpatioTemporal Adaptive Resolution Encoding (STARE) indexing scheme. STARE allows diverse earth science data to be unified and indexed, enabling the data to be partitioned and stored in a Parallel Optimized Data Store (PODS) for efficient analysis. The HDF Virtual Object Layer and Virtual Data Set technologies can then provide interfaces to access the data in STARE-PODS in a familiar way. The goal is for STARE-PODS to organize diverse data for alignment and parallel/distributed storage and processing to enable integrative analysis at scale.