Landsat 9 Spacecraft Animations and Stills

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    ID: 13920 Produced Video

    NASA To Launch Landsat 9: Continues Nearly 50-Year Legacy of Observing Earth from Space Live Shots

    Sept. 23rd, 2021
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Quick link to edited B-ROLLQuick link to canned interview with DR JEFF MASEK / Landsat 9 Project Scientist || Enlace para B-ROLL editado.Enlace a la entrevista con el DR. JEFF MASEK / Landsat 9 Project Scientist || If you’ve used Google Earth, then you’ve seen images of our home planet that only a satellite can bring you. Many of these images come from the Landsat mission -- a joint venture between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Since the first Landsat launch in 1972, Landsat satellites have provided us with continuous high-resolution images of Earth that are both stunning to look at, and packed with data that have helped shape our understanding of our planet. In particular, the decades-long data record helps researchers around the world understand how Earth is responding to natural and human-caused changes. Over almost 50 years, the Landsat satellites have watched as cities grow, rivers overflow their banks, sea levels rise, wildfires burn and farmers plant their crops. On Monday Sept. 27, NASA will launch Landsat 9, the next in a storied line of missions observing Earth’s surface. ** Launch window opens at 2:11pm EST / 11:11am PST that day! ** The Landsat 9 observatory will continue to build on this understanding of our home planet with even higher imaging capabilities than previous Landsats. Join NASA and USGS experts for one-on-one interviews just hours before Landsat 9 launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. * Live interviews will be available from 6:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EASTERN TIME on Monday, Sept. 27rd. *Click here to request an interview: https://forms.gle/vREXDyc8aaYzF1tu8* For more information about Landsat visit: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/landsat/ *Please note that we may not be able to accommodate all requests for a specific expert. If we cannot fit your request we will offer alternatives.* Suggested Anchor Intro: If you’ve used Google Earth before you’ve seen images of our planet that only a satellite can bring you. Many of these images come from the Landsat mission, which has been monitoring how Earth is changing for nearly 50 years. NASA and the USGS will be launching Landsat 9 today to continue bringing you those images, which help experts manage wildfires and water resources and help track the impacts of climate change. Here to tell us about the mission is NASA [or USGS] scientist XX. Suggested Questions:Landsat 9 is launching today to continue the mission that started in 1972. What is the Landsat mission?How is Landsat 9 different from the previous Landsat satellites? Landsat is known for its beautiful images, but this data is telling us a lot about how our planet is changing. How does Landsat data directly help people on the ground?Why is it important that NASA and USGS continue the Landsat mission?Where can our viewers go to learn more about Landsat? Questions for Longer Interviews:How does this help people/resource managers?How does this help us grow food?How often do Landsat satellites image a given place on Earth? ||

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    ID: 13292 Produced Video

    TIRS-2 Ready For Integration

    Aug. 23rd, 2019
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    The Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) has passed its tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and traveled across the country to be integrated onto Landsat 9.Music: Last Outpost by Lennert Busch [PRS], published by Sound Pocket Music [PRS]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || From orbit aboard the Landsat 9 satellite, the Thermal Infrared Sensor-2, or TIRS-2, will measure the temperature of Earth's land surfaces, detecting everything from a smoldering wildfire, to the amount of irrigation used on crop fields, to wispy clouds that are all but invisible to other instruments. First, however, it had to survive tests that simulated the harsh environment of space. This month, TIRS-2 successfully passed the stringent 12-week testing process at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It was shipped to Northrop Grumman’s facility in Arizona, where it and the Operational Land Imager-2 will be assembled onto the Landsat 9 spacecraft. Landsat 9 is a joint effort of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.Like digital cameras on a smart phone, the TIRS-2 instrument is an imager. But while a camera detects light reflected off an object, TIRS-2 detects the thermal energy that an object emits. The hotter a surface is, the more energy the instrument will detect. The Landsat mission has been observing Earth since 1972, building the longest continuous record from space of the planet’s forests, farms, cities, and other surfaces. Starting with Landsat 5 and continuing through the first TIRS instrument on Landsat 8, the satellites have carried instruments that can detect thermal energy as well as visible and infrared light – and water managers and others have put these observations to work. ||

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    Landsat sensors: pushbroom vs whiskbroom

    Oct. 31st, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Landsat collects images in long narrow strips called “swaths.” Each swath is 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide and is 2,752 kilometers (1,710 miles) from the next adjacent swath taken that day. It takes 16 days for the swaths to overlap enough to image the whole Earth.Previous Landsat sensors swept back and forth across the swath like a whisk broom to collect data. The sensor looked at a calibration source at the end of every row, which means that measurements were consistent from orbit to orbit. But this sensor design requires fast-moving parts, which are more likely to break.—and which did on Landsat 7.In contrast, the instruments on Landsat 8 view across the entire swath at once, building strips of data like a pushbroom. This approach requires no moving parts and gives the sensor detectors greater dwell time. The pushbroom instrument is smaller and lighter than previous whisk broom instruments, but its calibration is much more complex given the large number of detectors.“It was a natural step to evolve to a pushbroom sensor. The technology was proven on other satellites, and we knew we could get better accuracy. The pushbroom has no moving parts. It is a newer and more reliable technology.” explains Terry Arvidson, senior project engineer.For more information on the future of Landsat instruments, read https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat-9/instruments/. ||

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    ID: 13712 Produced Video

    Landsat 9: Continuing the Legacy series

    Nov. 30th, 2020
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Five decades ago, NASA and the US Geological Society launched a satellite to monitor Earth’s land from space. It was the beginning of a legacy. The Apollo era had given us our first looks at Earth from space and inspired the idea of regularly collecting images of our planet. The first Landsat — originally known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, or ERTS — rocketed into space in 1972. Since then, there have been eight Landsats and we’re preparing to launch number nine.The Landsat legacy stretches far and wide. Using visible and infrared light, Landsat helps track the health of crops, shows ocean pollution, and tracks coral reefs, icebergs and more. Thanks to sensor that can record wavelengths beyond what we can see with our eyes, Landsat can record vital information about Earth's surface.Narrated by the actor Marc Evan Jackson, who played a Landsat scientist in the movie Kong: Skull Island (2017), this series of videos tells the story of Landsat 9. From the birth of the Landsat program to the present preparations for launching Landsat 9 and even a look to the future with Landsat NeXt. ||

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    Landsat 9 Teaser Promo

    July 23rd, 2020
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Video promoting the technological advances of Landsat 9, continuing the legacy of global land imaging begun in 1972. The video highlights the origin of the Landsat program and some of the many benefits we receive from its data.Music: Marble Place by Matias Suescun [SACEM], published by KTSA Publishing [SACEM], available from Universal Production Music Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Landsat 9 is the latest satellite to continue the legacy of global observations of Earth’s land surface. With unmatched longevity, accuracy, and coverage, the Landsat program has been the cornerstone of global land imaging since 1972. Landsat 9 continues this tradition, and will carry us into the next fifty years of Earth observations. The two instruments on-board will make the most advanced measurements of any Landsat satellite.Design and construction of the spacecraft and its instruments is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and operation and archiving of the data is managaed by the US Geological Survey. Goddard and Ball Aerospace each built one of the instruments, and the spacecraft was built by Northrop Grumman.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all. ||

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    ID: 10812 Produced Video

    Landsat 8 (aka LDCM) Spacecraft Animations and Still Images

    Oct. 5th, 2011
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Landsat 8 (formerly known as LDCM, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission), a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, will provide moderate-resolution (15 meter - 100 meter, depending on spectral frequency) measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave infrared, and thermal infrared. There are two instruments on the spacecraft, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) and the Operational Land Imager (OLI). Landsat 8 continues the nearly 50-year long Landsat land imaging data set. In addition to widespread routine use for land use planning and monitoring on regional to local scales, support of disaster response and evaluations, and water use monitoring, Landsat 8 measurements directly serve NASA research in the focus areas of climate, carbon cycle, ecosystems, water cycle, biogeochemistry, and Earth surface/interior. ||

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    Landsat 7 Spacecraft Animations

    Jan. 4th, 2010
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    The seventh satellite in the long-running Landsat program was launched on April 15, 1999 and is the most accurately calibrated Earth-observing satellite, i.e., its measurements are extremely accurate when compared to the same measurements made on the ground. Landsat 7's sensor has been called "the most stable, best characterized Earth observation instrument ever placed in orbit." Landsat 7's rigorous calibration standards have made it the validation choice for many coarse-resolution sensors.Created for the 10th anniversary of the launch of Landsat 7. ||

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