Landsat

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Illustration of the Landsat 7satellite with its solar wing extended as it scans Earth below.

The NASA/USGS Landsat Program provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. Landsat data give us information essential for making informed decisions about Earth’s resources and environment.

Type

Orbiter

Launch

Multiple

Target

Earth

Objective

Image and monitor Earth from space
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Landsat Stories

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A Particular Lenticular Cloud

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Tundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds

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Telfer Mine, Western Australia

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NASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments

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Tracking Spring Flooding

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The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.

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