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A Better Eye on Reefs
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A Better Eye on Reefs

Landsat 8 takes a look at Princess Charlotte Bay, Australia, where reefs, river plumes, and sandy islands test the satellite's ability to observe the intersection of land and sea.

Published Jun 16, 2013

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Landsat 8’s First Year
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Landsat 8’s First Year

A composite view of the United States represents one of the ways scientists are exploring Landsat 8’s capabilities.

Published Feb 11, 2014

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A Lot of Data, A Lot of Possibilities
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A Lot of Data, A Lot of Possibilities

50 trillion pixels of Landsat data give researchers a lot of opportunities to look at Earth processes on scales from days to decades.

Published Apr 16, 2015

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Landsat in Memory of the World Register
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Landsat in Memory of the World Register

What does Landsat have in common with the Gutenberg Bible, Tolstoy’s personal library, and the Book of Kells?

Published Nov 24, 2011

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Landsat Data Continuity Mission Takes Off
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Landsat Data Continuity Mission Takes Off

LDCM extends an unprecedented four-decade record of global land observations.

Published Feb 12, 2013

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A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez
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A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez

When the Landsat archive is combined with modern computing power, scientists can view the planet not just across space, but also time.

Published Jun 11, 2013

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Taking Landsat 8 to the Beach
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Taking Landsat 8 to the Beach

Like an interesting novel, Landsat 8 provides a good read for a day along the shore.

Published Aug 22, 2014

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Space Archaeology: In the Realm of Resolution
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Space Archaeology: In the Realm of Resolution

Being able to see traces of human history in satellite imagery is dependent on what details can be resolved on a given image. There are four main types of image resolution.

Published Oct 4, 2017

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Keeping False Pass True
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Keeping False Pass True

A new remote sensing technique could make it easier to map seafloor channels in coastal areas.

Published Aug 15, 2015

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Finding Hidden Shoals on the North Slope
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Finding Hidden Shoals on the North Slope

By analyzing satellite images of sediments, coastal researchers and cartographers can identify potential shallows, shoals, and shipping hazards.

Published Sep 17, 2015

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Oyster Prospecting With Landsat 8
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Oyster Prospecting With Landsat 8

Finding promising aquaculture sites can be a challenge. Now seafood farmers may be getting some help from above.

Published Aug 25, 2017

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The Dead Sea
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The Dead Sea

The lake between Israel and Jordan provides a bounty of salt and of history.

Published Apr 6, 2012

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Sandy Neck, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Sandy Neck, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

This natural color image of Sandy Neck and Barnstable Harbor, on the north side of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was acquired on November 4, 2005, by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s EO-1 satellite.

Published Feb 19, 2011

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Arid Iran in False Color
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Arid Iran in False Color

False-color satellite imagery offers insight that goes beyond what the human eye can see.

Published Mar 6, 2016

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Scientists Use NASA Landsat Data to Hunt for Dinosaur Fossils
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Scientists Use NASA Landsat Data to Hunt for Dinosaur Fossils

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

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An Unlikely Eye on Orbiting Objects
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An Unlikely Eye on Orbiting Objects

Earth science satellites are designed to study our home planet’s surface and atmosphere, but occasionally they capture views of other objects in low-Earth orbit such as satellites, the International Space Station, and rocket debris.

Published Jun 29, 2016

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Establishing El Gouna
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Establishing El Gouna

This Red Sea resort town in northern Egypt has dramatically reshaped the coastline.

Published Aug 19, 2015

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First of Three Million
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First of Three Million

This image of the Dallas metro area was the very first image in the archives of the Landsat mission, launched in 1972.

Published Jul 23, 2012

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