Contributor: Gretchen Cook-Anderson, NASA‘s Earth Science News Team Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami
Source: Jessica Robertson and Jane Ferrigno, USGS Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions
Source: USGS Landsat Mission Website The Landsat project will begin processing MSS data on the Level-1 Product Generation System (LPGS) on September 15, 2010. This is
Landsat is featured in a NASA video retrospective on Hurricane Katrina showing the storm as captured by NASA satellites. Further Information: + Hurricane Katrina: A NASA Satellite Video
The most definitive map of Earth’s mangrove forests has been created with Landsat data. A group of scientists, led by Chandra Giri from USGS-EROS, has
USGS EROS has distributed over three million scenes for free via the internet since October 1, 2008. Source: + USGS Landsat website
