Looking beyond Landsat 7 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.

Capital Weather Gang New Earth-observing satellite beams back first images Landsat 9, launched in September by NASA and USGS, offers ultra-detailed views of the Earth’s surface.

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 ...

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission launched at 1:02 p.m. ET (10:02 a.m. PT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket into space without any ...

The MSS on Landsat-1 relayed over 300,000 images while the satellite was in commission. The satellite was so effective at imaging Earth that new land masses were discovered.

Landsat-1 was first designated as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, (ERTS-1). Its remote sensing recording instrument, the Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS) turned out to be extremely useful. It ...

The Landsat program officially began in 1972 with the launch of Landsat 1, and with Landsat 4 in 1982, the program began providing mission-to-mission data continuity.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Landsat satellite, which launched on July 23, 1972. The latest in the series, Landsat 9, was launched in September 2021.

Its murmurs tend not to be signs of volcanic unrest but rather the signature of avalanches large enough to register on nearby seismic and infrasound instruments,” NASA said in its latest assessment of ...

Landsat 1’s payload was overwhelmingly taken up by a more traditional camera system, and so it launched with a stripped-down four-band multispectral imager (down from an original seven) that ...

Landsat Program records: Multispectral Scanner (MSS) sensors Scientists worldwide recognize that there exists only one accurate image record, spanning nearly four decades, of the Earth's land surfaces ...