The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on theUSGS Landsat website. The 2009, Volume 3 Issue 4, includes the following articles:
+ Landsat 5 – Not Ready to Quit Yet
+ Landsat Scenes Top One Million Downloads
+ LDCM News – The LDCM Operational Land Imager
+ Landsat Free Archive – How Landsat Data are Being Used
+ Meetings & Conferences
+ Tips & Tricks – Viewing a Gap-mask File in Photoshop
+ Landsat Science Team Spotlight
+ EROS Authors in Recent Publications
+ Landsat Images of Interest
Source:
USGS Landsat Update, Volume 3 Issue 4 (PDF)

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.