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NASA Satellites Aid in Chesapeake Bay Recovery
From the distant reaches of the Universe, to black holes, and the Martian surface, NASA explores some of the most far out parts of space. But NASA also does research much closer to home. In fact, NASA Earth Science satellites are taking...
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NASA | When Trees Fall, Landsat Maps Them
Twelve years of global deforestation, wildfires, windstorms, insect infestations and more are captured in a new set of forest disturbance maps created from billions of pixels acquired by the imager on the NASA-USGS Landsat 7 satellite....
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NASA | Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest
This is a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated...
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Go Now! Landsat & the Calypso Caper
During the summer of 1975, Jacques Cousteau and his divers helped NASA determine if Landsat could measure the depth of shallow ocean waters. The story of this NASA-led satellite bathymetry experiment unfolds through the photography and...
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The Largest Group of Earth Scientists on Earth
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has the largest collection of Earth scientists on the planet. Their job is to be the nation's trusted source of comprehensive environmental information about the current state and the future of Earth....
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NASA | Landsat's Orbit
How long does it take for Landsat 8 to orbit the Earth? Or view the full surface of the globe? Jim Irons, the Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center tells you what you want to know. As a Landsat satellite flies over the...
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A Trip Through Time With Landsat 9
For half a century, the Landsat mission has shown us Earth from space. Now, come along with us on a "roadtrip" through the decades to see how the technology on this NASA and U.S. Geological Survey partnership has evolved with the times...
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Explore with Landsat: Where Would You Go?
With 50 years of Landsat data tracking our changing planet, scientists study how we're all #ConnectedByEarth. But we wonder - what will the next generation explore? Curious kids can make a video to ask Landsat scientists questions about...
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Tracking Amazon Deforestation
The NASA/USGS Landsat satellite mission is helping scientists study how the Amazon rainforest has changed over decades. The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, but every year, less of that forest is still standing....
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NASA Satellites Keep Watch on U.S. Food Supply
Since 2008, the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, or NASS, has drawn on Landsat data to monitor dozens of crops in the lower 48 states as part of NASS's Cropland Data Layer program. The Cropland Data layer uses Landsat and...
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9 Things About Landsat 9
In anticipation of the launch of Landsat 9, we count down 9 things about the Landsat mission, the science, the technology and the people who continue its legacy. Music: "Thought and Passion," "Hot Air Balloon Trip," "Cristal Delight,"...
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Landsat 9: Continuing the Legacy Promo
Landsat 9 is the latest satellite to continue the legacy of global observations of Earth’s land surface. With unmatched longevity, accuracy, and coverage, the Landsat program has been the cornerstone of global land imaging since 1972....
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40 Years of Watching Mount St. Helens
It has been 40 years since Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, in southwestern Washington, near the Oregon border. Fifty-seven people lost their lives in the disaster, and huge swaths of the surrounding forest were levelled. Both...
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NASA | Mapping The Future With Landsat
Many non-profits are using Landsat as a tool to identify and protect areas that are important for conservation. This video shows how The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has used Landsat in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to...
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Landsat 9: part 2, Designing For The Future
The soon-to-be-launched Landsat 9 is the intellectual and technical product of eight generations of Landsat missions, spanning nearly 50 years. Episode 2 takes us inside the spacecraft, showing how Landsat instruments collect carefully...
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NASA Technology Aids Wildlife Conservation
In a constantly changing world, the protection of our planet’s endangered species and ecosystems is a priority for ecologists. Recently, a group of researchers at the University of Idaho have worked to combine their extensive...
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NASA | Yellowstone Burn Recovery
A combination of lightning, drought and human activity caused fires to scorch more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1988. Within a year, burn scars cast a sharp outline on the 793,880 acres affected by fire,...
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NASA | In Katrina's Wake
Hurricane Katrina took the world by storm when it ravaged Louisiana and surrounding states in late August of 2005. Katrina's effects were far reaching, and researchers continue to uncover new areas of devastation left in her wake. Using...
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NASA | Earth Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 Years Old
On March 1, the Earth-observing Landsat 5 satellite celebrated 25 years in orbit. Twenty-two years beyond its primary mission lifetime, Landsat 5 is still going strong, making it a keystone of the 37-year Landsat Program. Among Landsat...
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Landsat 9: part 1, Getting Off The Ground
Every legacy has a compelling origin. The soon-to-be-launched Landsat 9 is the intellectual and technical product of eight generations of Landsat missions, spanning nearly 50 years. Episode One answers the question “why?” Why did the...
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5 Years of Landsat 8
In its five years in space, Landsat 8 has racked up an impressive line of statistics. The satellite made 26,500 orbits around Earth. It captured 1.1 million "scenes" of our home planet. Its images now represent 16 percent of all the...
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NASA | Katrina Retrospective: 5 Years After the Storm
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Five years later, NASA revisits the storm with a short video that shows Katrina as captured by satellites. Before and during the hurricane's landfall, NASA...
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Tracking 3 Decades of Dramatic Glacial Lake Growth
In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change....
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NASA | TIRS Over Time
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate...