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![Circles of green on the image top left give way to turquoise blue waters in the image center that is connected by a blue line of a canal to a darker blue body of water at the image bottom center. Image shows an area near Sadat City in Egypt.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nasa-ibm_fields-in-egypt_500x500_news.jpg)
NASA and IBM Collaborate to Apply AI to Earth Science Data
The collaboration between NASA and IBM is a unique application of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model technology to NASA Earth observation data.
![The fractured front of Crosson Ice Shelf](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Landsat9-CrossonIceShelf.png)
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.
![Doug Morton, the Chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gave a Landsat Hyperwall talk at #AGU22. Photo credit:](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221229_nu3_dougmortonAGU22.jpg)
Landsat at #AGU22
Landsat was part of over 400 presentations at the AGU 2022 Fall Meeting this year in Chicago.
![Virginia Norwood](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221228_nu1_Norwood-1.png)
2022 AGS Awards Highlight Landsat’s Impact on the Field of Geography
Virginia Norwood was recognized by AGS for her development of the first Landsat sensor and Karen Seto was recognized for her urban growth research which often relies on the long Landsat data archive.
![Landsat Next constellation](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LandsatNext-constellation.png)
Next up to Continue NASA/USGS’s Landsat Legacy
With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years.
![Agriculture](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Agriculture-Landscape-scaled.jpg)
NASA Harvest Video Celebrates 50 Years of Landsat
NASA Harvest gathered agricultural remote sensing experts to discuss how Landsat fundamentally transformed agricultural monitoring over the last half century.
![Landsat 9 image of Yangtze River Delta in 2022](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/L9-yangtze_thumbnail.png)
NASA Scientists Map Global Salt Marsh Losses and Their Carbon Impact
The world has lost 561 square miles (1,453 square kilometers) of salt marshes over the past 20 years.
![U.S. Senator Hickenlooper (D-CO)](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221202_nu1.png)
Hearing: Landsat at 50 & the Future of U.S. Satellite-Based Earth Observation
A U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing titled “Landsat at 50 & the Future of U.S. Satellite-based Earth Observation: took place on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.
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![Stella Front](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Stella-3-1-Front_crop.png)
STELLA: A DIY Handheld Scientific Instrument
If you are looking for a do-it-yourself (DIY) handheld spectrometer, you need to meet STELLA. STELLA (Science and Technology Education for Land/Life Assessment) is a portable scientific instrument developed by
![Pecora](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WTPecora_sq.jpg)
2023 William T. Pecora Award Nominations Now Being Accepted
Now through May 1, 2023, nominations for the William T. Pecora Award are being accepted.
![Landsat Next orbit pattern](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LandsatNext_triplet.jpg)
Released: Landsat Next Instrument Suite (LandIS) Draft Request for Proposal
The Landsat Next Instrument Suite Draft Request for Proposal is available for review via SAM.gov as of Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
![Landsat 8: A decade of service](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NASA_L8Anniversary_Final.01584_print.jpg)
Landsat 8 – A Decade of Service
This February marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Landsat 8, launched by NASA in 2013 and operated by the US Geological Survey.
![Circles of green on the image top left give way to turquoise blue waters in the image center that is connected by a blue line of a canal to a darker blue body of water at the image bottom center. Image shows an area near Sadat City in Egypt.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nasa-ibm_fields-in-egypt_500x500_news.jpg)
NASA and IBM Collaborate to Apply AI to Earth Science Data
The collaboration between NASA and IBM is a unique application of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model technology to NASA Earth observation data.
![The fractured front of Crosson Ice Shelf](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Landsat9-CrossonIceShelf.png)
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.
![Doug Morton, the Chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gave a Landsat Hyperwall talk at #AGU22. Photo credit:](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221229_nu3_dougmortonAGU22.jpg)
Landsat at #AGU22
Landsat was part of over 400 presentations at the AGU 2022 Fall Meeting this year in Chicago.
![Virginia Norwood](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221228_nu1_Norwood-1.png)
2022 AGS Awards Highlight Landsat’s Impact on the Field of Geography
Virginia Norwood was recognized by AGS for her development of the first Landsat sensor and Karen Seto was recognized for her urban growth research which often relies on the long Landsat data archive.
![Landsat Next constellation](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LandsatNext-constellation.png)
Next up to Continue NASA/USGS’s Landsat Legacy
With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years.
News Archives
![Stella Front](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Stella-3-1-Front_crop.png)
STELLA: A DIY Handheld Scientific Instrument
If you are looking for a do-it-yourself (DIY) handheld spectrometer, you need to meet STELLA. STELLA (Science and Technology Education for Land/Life Assessment) is a portable scientific instrument developed by
![Pecora](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WTPecora_sq.jpg)
2023 William T. Pecora Award Nominations Now Being Accepted
Now through May 1, 2023, nominations for the William T. Pecora Award are being accepted.
![Landsat Next orbit pattern](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LandsatNext_triplet.jpg)
Released: Landsat Next Instrument Suite (LandIS) Draft Request for Proposal
The Landsat Next Instrument Suite Draft Request for Proposal is available for review via SAM.gov as of Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
![Landsat 8: A decade of service](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NASA_L8Anniversary_Final.01584_print.jpg)
Landsat 8 – A Decade of Service
This February marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Landsat 8, launched by NASA in 2013 and operated by the US Geological Survey.
![Circles of green on the image top left give way to turquoise blue waters in the image center that is connected by a blue line of a canal to a darker blue body of water at the image bottom center. Image shows an area near Sadat City in Egypt.](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nasa-ibm_fields-in-egypt_500x500_news.jpg)
NASA and IBM Collaborate to Apply AI to Earth Science Data
The collaboration between NASA and IBM is a unique application of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model technology to NASA Earth observation data.
![The fractured front of Crosson Ice Shelf](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Landsat9-CrossonIceShelf.png)
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.
![Doug Morton, the Chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gave a Landsat Hyperwall talk at #AGU22. Photo credit:](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221229_nu3_dougmortonAGU22.jpg)
Landsat at #AGU22
Landsat was part of over 400 presentations at the AGU 2022 Fall Meeting this year in Chicago.
![Virginia Norwood](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221228_nu1_Norwood-1.png)
2022 AGS Awards Highlight Landsat’s Impact on the Field of Geography
Virginia Norwood was recognized by AGS for her development of the first Landsat sensor and Karen Seto was recognized for her urban growth research which often relies on the long Landsat data archive.
![Landsat Next constellation](https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LandsatNext-constellation.png)
Next up to Continue NASA/USGS’s Landsat Legacy
With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years.