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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.*
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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.
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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?
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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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"description": "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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"alt_text": "Every legacy has a compelling origin. The soon-to-be-launched Landsat 9 is the intellectual and technical product of eight generations of Landsat missions, spanning nearly 50 years. Episode One answers the question “why?” Why did the specific years between 1962 and 1972 call for a such a mission? Why did leadership across agencies commit to its fruition? Why was the knowledge it could reveal important to the advancing study of earth science? In this episode, we’re introduced to William Pecora and Stewart Udall, two men who propelled the project into reality, as well as Virginia Norwood who breathed life into new technology. Like any worthwhile endeavor, Landsat encountered its fair share of resistance. Episode one explores how those challenges were overcome with the launch of Landsat 1, signifying a bold step into a new paradigm.\r\rAdditional footage courtesy of Gordon Wilkinson/Texas Archive of the Moving Image and the US Geological Survey.\rComplete transcript available.Music: \"The Missing Star,\" \"Brazenly Bashful,\" \"Light Tense Weight,\" \"It's Decision Time,\" \"Patisserie Pressure,\" Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.",
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"description": "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. || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.00142_print.jpg (1024x576) [218.2 KB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.00142_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.6 KB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.00142_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || L9_teaser_20190713.mp4 (1920x1080) [167.3 MB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.mp4 (1920x1080) [158.5 MB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_twitter.mp4 (1920x1080) [22.4 MB] || Landsat9_teaser_20200723_youtube.webm (1920x1080) [11.1 MB] || 13247_Landsat9_teaser-captions.en_US.srt [1.9 KB] || 13247_Landsat9_teaser-captions.en_US.vtt [1.8 KB] || ",
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"alt_text": "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.",
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"title": "Landsat with Sentinel - Global Coverage",
"description": "This visualization depicts the orbits and data swaths of the Landsat 8, Landsat 9, Sentinel 2a, and Sentinel 2b satellites. The satellites appear one at a time with their respective data swaths. As time progresses throughout the visualization, the satellites ‘paint’ the globe with imagery to show how the four spacecraft work together to build a complete picture of the Earth. || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_print.jpg (1024x576) [55.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_searchweb.png (320x180) [62.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.1 MB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_1080p60.webm (1920x1080) [8.1 MB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k (3840x2160) [512.0 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [82.6 MB] || ",
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"alt_text": "This visualization depicts the orbits and data swaths of the Landsat 8, Landsat 9, Sentinel 2a, and Sentinel 2b satellites. The satellites appear one at a time with their respective data swaths. As time progresses throughout the visualization, the satellites ‘paint’ the globe with imagery to show how the four spacecraft work together to build a complete picture of the Earth. ",
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"title": "Landsat 9 Spacecraft Animations and Stills",
"description": "Landsat 9 is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, and will continue the Landsat program’s critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life. The mission will provide moderate-resolution (15 meter to 100 meter, depending on spectral frequency) measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in visible, near-infrared, short wave infrared, and thermal infrared wavelengths. There are two instruments on the spacecraft, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) and the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2).Landsat 9 will provide continuity with 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 measurements directly serve NASA research in the focus areas of climate, carbon cycle, ecosystems, water cycle, biogeochemistry, and Earth surface/interior.The Landsat program is the only U.S. satellite system designed and operated to repeatedly observe the global land surface at a moderate scale that shows both natural and human-induced change. || ",
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"alt_text": "An artist's conception of the Landsat 9 spacecraft, the ninth satellite launched in the long-running Landsat program, high above the Western US.",
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"title": "Landsat Program Timeline",
"description": "The Landsat program offers the longest continuous global record of the Earth’s surface; it continues to deliver visually stunning and scientifically valuable images of our planet. This short video highlights Landsat’s many benefits to society.In 1975, NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher predicted that if one space age development would save the world, it would be Landsat and its successor satellites. Since the early 1970s, Landsat has continuously and consistently archived images of Earth; this unparalleled data archive gives scientist the ability to assess changes in Earth’s landscape.For over 40 years, the Landsat program has collected spectral information from Earth’s surface, creating a historical archive unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and length.“It was the granddaddy of them all, as far as starting the trend of repetitive, calibrated observations of the Earth at a spatial resolution where one can detect man’s interaction with the environment,” Dr. Darrel Williams, the Landsat 7 Project Scientist, states about Landsat.Landsat sensors have a moderate spatial-resolution. You cannot see individual houses on a Landsat image, but you can see large man-made objects such as highways. This is an important spatial resolution because it is coarse enough for global coverage, yet detailed enough to characterize human-scale processes such as urban growth, deforestation, agriculture water use, and more. || ",
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"alt_text": "This is an image depicting the timeline of the Landsat program, from Landsat 1, which launched in 1972, through Landsat 9, currently being built. The hashed lines for Landsats 7-9 indicate the uncertain lifespan of the satellites. Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit on launch. To download a PDF of the timeline, click here.",
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