Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Orbits

Music: Futurity by Lee Groves [PRS] and Peter George Marett [PRS]Complete transcript available. || Average global crop yields for maize, or corn, may see a decrease of 24% by late century, with the declines becoming apparent by 2030, with high greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new NASA study. Wheat, in contrast, may see an uptick in crop yields by about 17%. The change in yields is due to the projected increases in temperature, shifts in rainfall patterns and elevated surface carbon dioxide concentrations due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, making it more difficult to grow maize in the tropics and expanding wheat’s growing range. || En EspañolMusic: Transcode by Lee Groves [PRS] and Peter George Marett [PRS]Complete transcript available.

Landsat 9, launching September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of the Earth-observing satellite. Landsat 9 will enable or improve measurements of water quality, glacial ice velocity, crop water usage, and much more.Music: The Waiting Room by Sam Dodson [PRS], Afterglow by Christopher Timothy White [PRS], both published by Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; and Inner Strength by Brava/Dsilence/Input/Output [SGAE], published by El Murmullo Sarao [SGAE] and Universal Sarao [SGAE]. Available from Universal Production Music. Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Landsat 9, launching September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of the Earth-observing satellite. For nearly half a century, the Landsat mission has shaped our understanding of Earth. Since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, the mission has gathered and archived more than 8 million images of our home planet’s terrain, including crop fields and sprawling cities, forests and shrinking glaciers. Landsat 9 will continue and extend that long-running mission to map our home planet. 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.

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.