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Artist Ahmet Ogut said art has a “power and agency” that doesn’t need to wait to be recognized by politicians or scientists.
Here's an example using Texas. Landsat is a decades-long satellite program run by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. It captures high-resolution images of Earth’s surface, helping scientists ...
Photo Credit: NASA Image of the Palmyra Atoll captured by the Landsat 8 satellite. Photograph of Australia’s island state of Tasmania taken from the International Space Station.
Landsat is a NASA/USGS program that began in 1972 and provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. Data from Landsat gives information essential for making informed ...
Raytheon will perform design, engineering analyses, fabrication, testing, delivery and support services for the Landsat Next instruments that will form the future Earth observation system ...
NASA has canceled an over-budget ... as OSAM-1 would have demonstrated with the Landsat 7 Earth-imaging satellite. Instead, companies are focusing more on extending satellite life in other ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from California and safely boosted a new Earth-watching Landsat into a polar ... planet as it rotates below. NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden ...
Another year, another trip around the Sun! I’ve already made more of those trips than I care to recount. But even so, I’m just as entranced now by how our planet looks from space as I was more ...
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 ...
"ERTS" was the first satellite of what later became NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat Program, an ambitious effort with a vision of documenting the entirety of Earth from space.