Images

The EROS Center has a long hallway with a rotating globe in the center. Along the walls there are descriptions about the role of Landsat.

The surface of the Earth is always changing. Some changes like earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and landslides happen quickly and other changes, such as most erosional processes, happen slowly over time.  It’s often hard to see these changes from ground level.

This is a picture of a puzzle piece cut out. Landsat puzzles can be found in the Remote Sensing Classroom: https://eros.usgs.gov/remote-sensing-classroom

The surface of the Earth is always changing. Some changes like earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and landslides happen quickly and other changes, such as most erosional processes, happen slowly over time.  It’s often hard to see these changes from ground level.

This is a logo of "Image of the Week" that can be used for carousel banners. Find these videos produced by the EROS Center here: https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/image-of-the-week

Image of the Week logo for the EROS Center.

At EROS, we highlight new satellite images that feature striking changes to the Earth's surface. Our images come from locations around the world.

Find the Image of the Week here.

In the right wintry conditions, an ice bridge forms between the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Theoretically, this is the only place where you can walk from Russia to the United States (and vice versa), however travel between one Diomede to the other is strictly forbidden.  

Nine consecutive rainstorms have poured on California since December 26, 2022, after three years of intensive drought.

This graphic displays the millions of Landsat Level-1 downloads, from 2008 to December 2022.

View more statistics on the Landsat Project Statistics page. 

The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide—about 2 ½ times as big as Rhode Island. Even though it is a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico has its own Olympic team. The largest islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands are St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John.

Landsat 8’s first image captured the area where the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains meet in Colorado. The natural-color image shows the coniferous forest of the mountains coming down to the dormant plains. Boulder, Colorado, sits in the middle of the image.

Rare spotting! Dueling volcanoes captured by Landsat 9 satellite. Mauna Loa's 11.3-mile-long lava flow illuminates the plume of ash in the atmosphere above. The small red spot in the lower right is Kilauea—it began erupting nine days ago. USGS Volcanoes says a dual eruption has not occurred in Hawaii since 1984, making this a rare event.

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On September 28, Landsat 8 passed over Hurricane Ian, capturing its eye just before landfall. The storm's center measured 42 kilometers (26 miles) wide.

In 2022, President Joe Biden pardoned two turkeys, Chocolate and Chip. The two holiday birds hail from a ranch in Monroe, North Carolina.

Two USGS scientists preparing to collect soils and measuring infiltration to quantify microbial, biogeochemical, and hydrological recovery 1 year after the 2021 Dixie Fire. They have been seasonally measuring soil recovery at 11 sites within the footprint of the Dixie Fire.

Animated GIF depicting White Oak City, Alabama. On the left is composite imagery. On the right is synthetic imagery.

Landsat 9 image of Hurricane Ian as the eye of the storm passed north of Cuba on the morning of Tuesday, September 27, 2022. The image has the island boundary overlaid on it. Image credit: USGS EROS

A Landsat 9 natural color image (left) and the corresponding Landsat Provisional Aquatic Reflectance product (right) display the properties of a massive algal bloom across the surface waters of Lake Erie on September 9, 2022. 

By the end of December 2022, all Landsat Collection 1 data and science products will be removed from USGS data access platforms. This depreciation includes Level-1, Level-2, Level-3, and ESPA- related products. Collection 1 has not been updated with Landsat products since December 31, 2021.