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Below you'll find the most recent news about Landsat and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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Landsat 9 Captures Swirling Hurricane Ian

Landsat 9 Captures Swirling Hurricane Ian

For five decades, Landsat satellites have captured a variety of natural disasters and their effects. The most recently launched, Landsat 9, peered...

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Landsat Calibration/Validation Team Earns NASA Award

Landsat Calibration/Validation Team Earns NASA Award

Adding a new satellite to the Landsat Program is no small task, even if the satellite is supposed to be a copy of its older sibling. Working to ensure...

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Pecora 22 Program and Registration Now Available

Pecora 22 Program and Registration Now Available

The 22nd William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium (Pecora 22) will convene in Denver, Colorado, from October 24 – 27, 2022.

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Landsat Science Team Meets, Celebrates Landsat 9 Transition

Landsat Science Team Meets, Celebrates Landsat 9 Transition

The 2018-2023 Landsat Science Team met for their summer meeting at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, S.D...

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Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022

Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022

All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products will be removed from USGS data access platforms by the end of 2022.

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Landsat 7 Data Acquired at a Lower Orbit Now Available

Landsat 7 Data Acquired at a Lower Orbit Now Available

Landsat 7 imaging resumed on May 5, 2022, at a lower orbit of 697 kilometers (km) after a series of maneuvers in early April lowered the satellite out...

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Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

Sioux Falls, S.D. — The U.S. Geological Survey assumed complete operational control of the Landsat 9 satellite from NASA today at the USGS Earth...

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New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released

New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released

Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance (AR) and Level-3 Provisional Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) science products are now...

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Landsat Looks at the Moon

Landsat Looks at the Moon

On May 16, 2022, sky watchers were not the only ones observing the Moon during the longest total lunar eclipse in three decades. Two satellites that...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward

Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward

On July 23, 2022, Landsat—a space-based Earth observation program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA—marks a half century of...

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