False-color satellite imagery offers insight that goes beyond what the human eye can see.
Published Mar 6, 2016
One of the satellite’s first uncalibrated images showed where the Front Range meets the Great Plains in Colorado.
Published Mar 22, 2013
Landsat 8 captured fine details of the lava flowing in Iceland between the Bardarbunga and Askja volcanoes.
Published Sep 10, 2014
The MESSENGER spacecraft gave us this near-infrared view of the Americas, where the dense vegetation of the Amazon and other forests appears dark red.
Published Mar 7, 2014
The variety of landscapes in southeastern Florida and the northern Everglades illustrates why you might want to see the world in false color.
Published Apr 1, 2014
In the past week, 21 wildfires have ignited in communities north and east of San Francisco Bay, consuming at least 170,000 acres.
Published Oct 12, 2017
Lava lakes and gas plumes near Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Published Jul 2, 2014
With Landsat 5 and 7 data, scientists can identify areas comprised of sedimentary rocks where vegetation is sparse—requirements for good fossil sites.
Published May 16, 2000
A combo of infrared and visible wavelengths exposes the mineral geology around China’s Piqiang Fault.
Published Apr 17, 2014
These images of the Saline Valley area, California, were acquired March 30, 2000, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER).
Published Sep 8, 2000
The storm surge and rainfall from the category 4 hurricane inundated parts of the Louisiana coast, while winds wiped out electric power to many.
Published Aug 31, 2020Image of the Day Land Water Floods Severe Storms Human Presence Remote Sensing
Two images acquired more than four decades apart show the development of the technology behind Landsat’s satellite sensors.
Published Feb 5, 2017
In east-central Alaska, the Pingo Fire was scorching hundreds of thousands of acres north of the Yukon River in early July 2004.
Published Jul 6, 2004
Wildfire continued to spread through Fort McMurray in Canada’s Northern Alberta region.
Published May 5, 2016
