Category: History
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A Trip Through Time With Landsat 9
Come along on a “roadtrip” through the decades to see how the technology on Landsat has evolved with the times to provide an unbroken data record.
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Go Now! Landsat & the Calypso Caper
This video takes you to the summer of 1975 when Jacques Cousteau and his divers helped NASA determine if Landsat could measure the depth of shallow ocean waters.
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Mapping Landsat’s Long History
UtahView’s Ellie McGinty has created a Google Earth Web Map showcasing Landsat’s history.
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NASA Citizen Scientists Discover “Peter Pan Disks”
Scientists think planets, including the Earth, form inside giant disks of gas and dust that circle young stars. Observing these disks, called protoplanetary disks, teaches us how long it takes planets to form. Until recently astronomers thought that protoplanetary disks…
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Neptune at Opposition
September is Best Time to Glimpse Elusive Ice Giant Opposition comes every September, and it’s not just kids who resist going back to school after summer vacation. September is also when the planet Neptune will be at opposition – an…
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Uncharted Exhibit in Sioux Falls
Uncharted, a cartographic art installation, was on display for the 2017 Pecora 20 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.