Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers eagerly awaiting access to data from the Landsat Earth observation mission ...

(SPACE.com) The changing face of our planet has been documented in stunning detail over the last 40 years by the longest-running Earth-observing satellite program, called Landsat. Today, on the 40th ...

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The image above was composed from a sequence of false-color images acquired between 1986 and 2003 by the Landsat 5 and 7 satellites. The moving ice appears in shades of blue. Brown lines are ...

NASA’s Landsat satellites have consistently made history in Earth observation since the project’s first launch in 1972, with this year marking 50 years of innovation and science. Its influence may ...

The first Landsat satellite - ERTS-1. It launched on July 23, 1972. The first fully operational Landsat image taken on July 25, 1972, inaugurating a 40-year run when the first satellite was known as ...

Since 1972 the Landsat mission has been monitoring natural and human-made changes to our planet. But the continuity of that scientifically precious dataset could be lost unless all goes according to ...

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Landsat 9, the newest and most powerful Earth-observing satellite, is set to launch on Monday. The satellite, which is a joint project between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), will continue ...