Landsat News
Since 1972, Landsat satellites have systematically documented our planet's changing surface, from shifting agricultural patterns and urban expansion to forest loss and coastal erosion. This continuous record provides scientists with invaluable data to understand long-term environmental change.
A City Doesn’t Grow at One Speed
Using decades of Landsat and Sentinel-2 images, researchers discover the Urban Pulse to help track the cycles and rhythms of how neighborhoods within cities change.
Mission Success! Celebrating Landsat 9’s Five-Year Design Life Milestone
On September 27, 2026, Landsat 9 achieved its Five-Year Design Life Milestone. The benefits of this satellite and its data to scientific discovery and human health are immeasurable.
Separating Wheat from Chaff — from Space
Landsat imagery is helping researchers map Maryland's winter cover crops, verifying conservation efforts that reduce soil erosion and protect Chesapeake Bay water quality.
Eric Vermote, Landsat Science Team Member, Wins Pecora Award
In May, Landsat Science Team member and atmospheric correction expert Eric Vermote won the William T. Pecora Award for his outstanding contributions set global standards for atmospheric correction and data validation.
In Pursuit of Precision: Remembering John Barker
John L. Barker, who passed away on July 6, 2026, at age 88, was a seminal force who fundamentally transformed Landsat into a rigorous science mission through his relentless pursuit of precision remote sensing calibration standards.
Moving Marshes in the Puget Sound
A major restoration in the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge returned the estuary's natural processes.
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Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. orbited Earth from November 11 to 15, 1966, on…
Blanket bogs in the Scottish Highlands store vast amounts of carbon.
Rounds of heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest flooded rivers and rapidly raised New Mexico’s second-largest reservoir.
The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of…
Amid the warm hues of fall foliage, Pine Creek Gorge forms a deep scar in the Allegheny Plateau.
The sight of an icy skull-like visage on the Antarctic island could make one’s blood run cold.
A national monument since the 1920s, Chiricahua is America's newest national park.
Fall color covers the forested slopes of Bieszczady National Park, while patches of polonina, a type of high-mountain meadow, have…
High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the…
If the thought of extraterrestrial objects crashing into Earth weren’t creepy enough, behold Australia’s Spider Crater.
Heavy rains since mid-September have caused widespread flooding that has affected millions of people across the country.
Drought and an ailing aquifer were major topics of conversation when NASA scientists visited with farmers in the Texas High…
