Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at ...

The final image captured by the recently decommissioned Landsat 7 satellite shows how "Sin City" has nearly doubled in size ...

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape dramatically altered by nature's force.

A 2024 study on the National Land Cover Database (which is based on Landsat observations) has found that tornado damage to forests in the southeastern U.S. is on the rise, despite a slight decrease in ...

A wildfire tearing across Oregon is so big it can be seen from space. The Cow Valley Fire is the largest wildfire currently burning in the state. It started on July 11 near the small town of Brogan, ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Landsat satellite, which launched on July 23, 1972. The latest in the series, Landsat 9, was launched in September 2021.

Landsat 9 joins Landsat 8, which has been in orbit, taking pictures of the earth for nearly 10 years. The two satellites are flying more than 400 miles overhead.

Landsat 9 is the most recent in the Landsat series of remote-sensing satellites, which provide global coverage of landscape changes on Earth. The Landsat program – a joint effort between NASA ...

“Landsat 9, the latest joint effort by NASA and USGS, proudly carries on that remarkable record.” NASA launched Landsat 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sept. 27, 2021.

Landsat 9 just launched last September, the latest in a long line of influential spacecraft. A schematic sketch of Landsat-1. Image Credits: NASA I talked with Jim Irons, who has worked at NASA ...

NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite captured images of Earth from space. The craft was on a United Launch Alliance rocket that blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.