![Landsat 8’s OLI instrument captured its first lunar image on March 26, 2013 (seen here with the panchromatic band).](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140228_nu1-1-300x289.png)
Landsat 8 Images Earth’s Biggest Satellite—Check it Out
Landsat 8 was built to do something none of its predecessors had done before: look at the Moon. You may ask why an Earth-observing mission would want to image Earth’s natural orbiting celestial body. Well, it all goes back to getting good data of Earth.