With Landsat 9 on the horizon, the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2A in orbit and Sentinel-2B launching next year, science team member Curtis Woodcock captured the overall sentiment, saying, “The future looks really exciting.”
+ Summer 2015 Landsat Science Team Meeting presentations via USGS

Influencing Factors: Satellites Help Decipher the Fate of West Antartica
An international team of researchers has combined satellite imagery and climate and ocean records to obtain the most detailed understanding yet of how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – which contains enough ice to raise global sea level by 3.3 metres – is responding to climate change.