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beaches and reefs

Do you have a favorite beach? Have you ever gone snorkeling or boating? Landsat helps map and monitor those coastal waters and shores.

beaches and reefs
beaches and reefs

Do you have a favorite beach? Have you ever gone snorkeling or boating? Landsat helps map and monitor those coastal waters and shores.

Landsat has helped us better understand coastal regions around the world for nearly 50 years. Landsat 9 launched in September 2021 and will continue that record, chronicling our home planet into the next 50 years.

TIME-lapse TRAVEL

Travel to Cape Cod in Massachusetts and watch how 36 years of Landsat images can animate this ever changing coastline.

Massachusetts Time-lapse

Did You Know?

Did you know that Landsat 8 passes over your favorite beach every 16 days?

At the Water’s Edge

Discover how Landsat helps map and monitor beaches and coastal waters.

 

Chasing Cousteau

Beaches and Reefs circle

Landsat 3
    1978

  Designed for one year
     of service, Landsat 3
        operated for a bit
          over 5 years—and that
            was the shortest
             service of any
             Landsat satellite.

            + Getting off
           the ground

Beaches and Reefs circle

Landsat 3
    1978

Designed for one yearof service, Landsat 3 operated for a bit over 5 years—and that was the shortest service of any Landsat satellite.

            + Getting off
           the ground

Beaches and Reefs circle

Landsat 3
    1978

  Designed for one year
     of service, Landsat 3
        operated for a bit
          over 5 years—and that
            was the shortest
             service of any
             Landsat satellite.

            + Getting off
           the ground

Dr. Beach’s Top 10 Beaches of 2021

For over 30 years, Dr. Beach has created a Top 10 Beach list based on criteria including water color, sand softness, wave size, water temperature, and more.

umbrella pic

What’s your favorite beach?

+ Landsat Sees Top 10 Beaches

Try This!

What do you like to do for Summer Fun? Download this Fortune Teller and find out how Landsat helps people manaage, protect, and preserve some of your favorite summer vacation places on the planet.


fortune teller

Try your hand at cleaning our nation’s waterways, learning how water is used in different places and industries, and trying to avoid disaster!

+ Play the Game

 

2021 ESW poster back

Try This!

What do you like to do for Summer Fun? Download this Fortune Teller and find out how Landsat helps people manaage, protect, and preserve some of your favorite summer vacation places on the planet.

fortune teller

Try your hand at cleaning our nation’s waterways, learning how water is used in different places and industries, and trying to avoid disaster!

Play the Game

2021 ESW poster back

Get Crafty!

A Landsat image of the Great Bahama Bank inspired these crafts using yarn and felting.

Create your own Landsat inspired craft and share with #LandsatCraft.

Bahama sands

Credit: Kate Ramsayer/NASA

felt artCredit: Cecilia Ho/FELTastic Fashion

Get Crafty!

A Landsat image of the Great Bahama Bank inspired these crafts using yarn and felting.

Create your own Landsat inspired craft and share with #LandsatCraft.

Bahama sands

Credit: Kate Ramsayer/NASA

felt artCredit: Cecilia Ho/FELTastic Fashion

Postcard from Camp

Collect all nine postcards from Camp Landsat at Week 3: Beaches & Reefs! Landsat images show us how shorelines around the world change from year to year. Did you know that beaches are dynamic, living landscapes? The front of this postcard features a natural-color Landsat 8 image of the Bahamas, acquired February 15, 2020.

 

Bahama postcard

EOKids

Explore the shore with EO Kids’ Barrier Islands: Sands & Lands in Motion. Learn about Earth’s changing shorelines, especially barrier islands.

Shorelines Barrier Islands

beaches and reefs
beaches and reefs

Do you have a favorite beach? Have you ever gone snorkeling or boating? Landsat helps map and monitor those coastal waters and shores.

beaches and reefs
beaches and reefs

Do you have a favorite beach? Have you ever gone snorkeling or boating? Landsat helps map and monitor those coastal waters and shores.

Landsat has helped us better understand coastal regions around the world for nearly 50 years. Landsat 9 launched in September 2021 and will continue that record, chronicling our home planet into the next 50 years.

TIME-lapse TRAVEL

Travel to Cape Cod in Massachusetts and watch how 36 years of Landsat images can animate this ever changing coastline.

Massachusetts Time-lapse

Did You Know?

Did you know that Landsat 8 passes over your favorite beach every 16 days?

At the Water’s Edge

Discover how Landsat helps map and monitor beaches and coastal waters.

 

Chasing Cousteau

Beaches and Reefs circle

Landsat 3
    1978

  Designed for one year
     of service, Landsat 3
        operated for a bit
          over 5 years—and that
            was the shortest
             service of any
             Landsat satellite.

            + Getting off
           the ground

Beaches and Reefs circle

Landsat 3
    1978

Designed for one yearof service, Landsat 3 operated for a bit over 5 years—and that was the shortest service of any Landsat satellite.

            + Getting off
           the ground

Beaches and Reefs circle

Landsat 3
    1978

  Designed for one year
     of service, Landsat 3
        operated for a bit
          over 5 years—and that
            was the shortest
             service of any
             Landsat satellite.

            + Getting off
           the ground

Dr. Beach’s Top 10 Beaches of 2021

For over 30 years, Dr. Beach has created a Top 10 Beach list based on criteria including water color, sand softness, wave size, water temperature, and more.

umbrella pic

What’s your favorite beach?

+ Landsat Sees Top 10 Beaches

Try This!

What do you like to do for Summer Fun? Download this Fortune Teller and find out how Landsat helps people manaage, protect, and preserve some of your favorite summer vacation places on the planet.


fortune teller

Try your hand at cleaning our nation’s waterways, learning how water is used in different places and industries, and trying to avoid disaster!

+ Play the Game

 

2021 ESW poster back

Try This!

What do you like to do for Summer Fun? Download this Fortune Teller and find out how Landsat helps people manaage, protect, and preserve some of your favorite summer vacation places on the planet.

fortune teller

Try your hand at cleaning our nation’s waterways, learning how water is used in different places and industries, and trying to avoid disaster!

Play the Game

2021 ESW poster back

Get Crafty!

A Landsat image of the Great Bahama Bank inspired these crafts using yarn and felting.

Create your own Landsat inspired craft and share with #LandsatCraft.

Bahama sands

Credit: Kate Ramsayer/NASA

felt artCredit: Cecilia Ho/FELTastic Fashion

Get Crafty!

A Landsat image of the Great Bahama Bank inspired these crafts using yarn and felting.

Create your own Landsat inspired craft and share with #LandsatCraft.

Bahama sands

Credit: Kate Ramsayer/NASA

felt artCredit: Cecilia Ho/FELTastic Fashion

Postcard from Camp

Collect all nine postcards from Camp Landsat at Week 3: Beaches & Reefs! Landsat images show us how shorelines around the world change from year to year. Did you know that beaches are dynamic, living landscapes? The front of this postcard features a natural-color Landsat 8 image of the Bahamas, acquired February 15, 2020.

 

Bahama postcard

EOKids

Explore the shore with EO Kids’ Barrier Islands: Sands & Lands in Motion. Learn about Earth’s changing shorelines, especially barrier islands.

Shorelines Barrier Islands