The Landsat mosaic of New York was installed in Gould Plaza at New York University next to NASA’s Orbit Pavilion, an art piece featuring the sounds of 19 NASA satellites that monitor the pulse of our planet from the extraordinary vantage point of space.
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Safeguarding freshwater resources is crucial, and while scientists use a variety of ground-based techniques to gauge water quality, the Landsat program has provided water quality data from orbit for decades.