Landsat 9 will soon replace Landsat 7 to orbit Earth and capture images of its natural resources. The NASA and USGS satellite will help keep tabs on climate change.

Landsat 9, launched in September by NASA and USGS, offers ultra-detailed views of the Earth’s surface. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Landsat 9's first photos show the Florida Panhandle, Detroit and its surrounding area, Navajo Country in northern Arizona, the high Himalayas and the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

The launch of Landsat 9 (on an Atlas V rocket) from Vandenberg Space Force Base marked the 2000th launch at that facility. Weddel Sea, Antarctica, true colour satellite image. Pack ice melting in ...

Landsat 9 won't be alone on launch. Four CubeSats, 8-inch by 4-inch by 13-inch mini-satellites used for missions that require low-Earth orbits, will tag along for the ride as secondary payloads.

The spacecraft, called Landsat 9, will help extend the 50-year continuous record of global imagery collected by the Landsat family of satellites since 1972.. Perched atop a United Launch Alliance ...

Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that launched Sept. 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth. The images, all acquired […] ...

Sediments swirl in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair in this Landsat 9 image of both Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, from Oct. 31, 2021. The Great Lakes serve as sources of freshwater, ...

Landsat 9 should enter service in early January, at which point operations will be handed over to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Landsat 9 is the latest in a series of missions dating back to ...

Landsat 9’s liftoff was the 2,000th launch from Vandenberg since 1958. Located on the Pacific coast northwest of Los Angeles, its position is ideal for testing ballistic missiles and putting ...

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

For example, Landsat 9 can differentiate more than 16,000 shades of a given color of light, compared to just 256 for Landsat 7, NASA officials said. Landsat 9 has two Earth-imaging instruments.