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Celebrating a Decade of Landsat 8

Celebrating a Decade of Landsat 8

Landsat 8 celebrates its tenth anniversary this week on Saturday, February 11, 2023. The technology of the satellite and its instruments...

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New RCMAP Fact Sheet Offers User-Friendly Overview

New RCMAP Fact Sheet Offers User-Friendly Overview

The mission of the Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) project housed at the Earth Resources Observation and Science...

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How sea ice, ocean currents, and climate change may have affected early human migration to North America

How sea ice, ocean currents, and climate change may have affected early human migration to North America

Based on paleoclimate records and climate models, researchers have identified the most feasible time periods for early human migrations along the...

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'Next' to Continue the NASA/USGS Landsat Legacy

'Next' to Continue the NASA/USGS Landsat Legacy

With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very...

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Curiosity blog | Sols 3718-3720: Go For Drilling at Encanto

Curiosity blog | Sols 3718-3720: Go For Drilling at Encanto

In the previous plan, Curiosity conducted a preliminary assessment of the potential drill target “Encanto” (as seen in the above MAHLI image) and...

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OnDemand Topo Maps Officially Join USGS National Map Offerings

OnDemand Topo Maps Officially Join USGS National Map Offerings

The people have spoken! OnDemand Topo maps and topoBuilder were so popular that we're ending the pilot phase of the project and making topoBuilder a...

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps USGS Pilot New Search Tool for Subsurface Data & Samples Across the Country

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps USGS Pilot New Search Tool for Subsurface Data & Samples Across the Country

Reston, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey is testing a new way of accessing borehole data and samples from across the entire country, made possible in...

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Tools Help Scientists Wrangle LCMAP Data and More

Tools Help Scientists Wrangle LCMAP Data and More

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive contains 50 years—and counting—of Earth observations in Landsat data. It’s no...

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NEW TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Fire Stations in Washington and Oregon!

NEW TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Fire Stations in Washington and Oregon!

We're moving back up north to Washington and Oregon for another fire stations challenge! This challenge primarily focuses on points with no edit...

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Landsat Satellites Operated from EROS for First Time

Landsat Satellites Operated from EROS for First Time

For the first time ever, the commands to operate the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites came directly from the USGS Earth Resources Observation and...

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