The Lompoc Mural Society, working with NASA, has spearheaded efforts to create Lompoc’s newest mural, which celebrates the Landsat program and its 50th anniversary. The artwork will adorn a large wall ...

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Landsat 9 enhances Earth observation with 14-bit radiometric resolution, improved signal-to-noise ratio, and polar night ...

Landsat images acquired in 1992 and 2012 (top and bottom, respectively) show the transformation of China’s Binhai New Area from salt farms, reed marshes and wasteland to one of China’s key economic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A street fan provides relief on a hot summer day in New York City. Stephen Chernin/Getty Images Spend time in a city in summer and ...

An Atlas 5 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Sept. 27 carrying the Landsat 9 satellite. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 successfully launched the latest in the Landsat ...

United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday, September 27. The rocket will carry NASA's Landsat 9 satellite into orbit. The Landsat ...

The Landsat Program comprises a series of Earth-observing satellite missions of, thus far, six satellites. The Program is jointly managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Department ...

If you haven’t heard of Virginia Norwood, it’s about time you did. An aerospace pioneer whose career would have been historic even without its undercurrent of triumph over misogynistic discrimination, ...

Continuity Mission Satellite (LDCM) satellite. Upon its launch from California in early 2013, LDCM will be known as Landsat 8 and will continue the NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth ...

A sustained land imaging program pays close attention not only to data acquisition, but equally to data management, data products, and data availability. Satellite data, which were once largely ...

The changing face of our planet has been documented in stunning detail over the last 40 years by the longest-running Earth-observing satellite program, called Landsat. Today, on the 40th anniversary ...