Landsat

Earth
Landsat
The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or teams using satellite or aerial remote sensing that make outstanding contributions toward understanding the Earth (land, oceans, and air), educating the next generation of scientists, informing decision-makers, or supporting natural or human-induced disaster response.
Posted March 11, 2026
Earth
Landsat
For over 50 years, the Landsat program has provided the longest continuous satellite record of Earth’s land surface from space. Landsat 9, launched in 2021, is the latest mission in this remarkable legacy.
Posted February 26, 2026
Landsat
The boreal forest—the world’s largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. New research uses Landsat data to track how the forests shift.
Posted February 6, 2026
Earth
Ice & Glaciers
Landsat
NASA Scientist Alex Gardner highlights how Landsat made his research into the dynamics of glacial flow possible.
Posted February 4, 2026
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Human Dimensions
Landsat
Oceans
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Water on Earth
NASA satellites are helping Maine oyster farmers pick better sites and plan when oysters will be ready to harvest.
Posted January 15, 2026
Earth
Landsat
Missions
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.
Posted December 17, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth
General
Landsat
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Earth scientist Compton J. Tucker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work creating innovative tools to track the planet’s changing vegetation from space.
Posted June 5, 2025
Earth Day
Earth
General
Landsat
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Lee esta historia en español aquí. From the iconic image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such as PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), NASA has given us novel ways to see […]
Posted April 21, 2025
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Human Dimensions
Landsat
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
As any urban dweller who has lived through a heat wave knows, a shady tree can make all the difference. But what happens when there’s no shade available? A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data to identify a major gap in global resilience to climate change: cities in the Global South have […]
Posted November 26, 2024
Earth
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
Landsat
Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers.
Posted August 6, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

2
3
1
324
12
1
5
48
144
1
9
6
10
2
6
1
1
3
7
2
1
7
596
2
9
4
6
30
4
14
1
55
1
90
1
234
13
10
1
3
1
29
1
10
3
2
185
10
42
18
2
210
1
12
4
2
37
1
1
3
1
2
1
1
2
1
18
25
135
9
1
6
Io
4
9
14
4
1
299
3
6
1

Recent Posts

Newsletter Archive