The latest issue of the USGS Landsat Project Update is available on the USGS Landsat website. The 2010, Volume 4 Issue 3, includes the following articles:
+ Landsat 5 Acquisition Plan: Modifications to be Made
+ Stewart Udall, Grandfather of the Landsat Mission
+ Landsat Thermal Band Pixel Size Change
+ Calibration Update to ETM+ Thermal Band
+ Landsat Science Team Meeting Held
+ Tips & Tricks – How to Determine the Processing Level ofa Landsat Scene
+ LDCM News – FY 2011 Budget for USGS Includes LDCM Funding
+ EROS Authors in Recent Publications
+ Landsat Images of Interest – Aral Sea 1973 – 2009
Source:
USGS Landsat Update, Volume 4 Issue 3 (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.