Landsat 9: More Than Just A Picture - NASA Science

Celebrating Landsat 8's First Year in Orbit - NASA Science

🏈Big game, big picture! While the Super Bowl plays out on the field, Landsat keeps an eye on the Bay, capturing the larger picture of land and water from space. This image of San Francisco Bay, captured by Landsat 8 on January 14, 2026, shows a constantly moving mix of waters. The darker blues and greens reflect deeper water, while lighter green and tan swirls show mud and microscopic life carried in from rivers and stirred by daily tides. Bright patches along the shoreline highlight shallow, m

Landsat In Action—Landsat’s Calibration and Validation In this USGS Landsat in Action video, Engineers and scientists from both Landsat and Sentinel missions talk about working together to calibrate observation data and validate its quality to improve the science using these resources. Quote to note from David Roy, Professor at South Dakota State University’s Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence: “It’s a fantastic time to be a user of satellite data, if you’re in that moderate resolution dom