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Below you'll find the most recent news about Landsat and USGS. Please contact Michelle Bouchard at mbouchard@usgs.gov for assistance with specific media questions and requests.

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Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022

Landsat Collection 1 Datasets To Be Removed By End of 2022

All Landsat Collection 1 data and science products will be removed from USGS data access platforms by the end of 2022.

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Landsat 7 Data Acquired at a Lower Orbit Now Available

Landsat 7 Data Acquired at a Lower Orbit Now Available

Landsat 7 imaging resumed on May 5, 2022, at a lower orbit of 697 kilometers (km) after a series of maneuvers in early April lowered the satellite out...

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Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

Landsat 9: USGS assumes control of newest satellite in Landsat program from NASA

Sioux Falls, S.D. — The U.S. Geological Survey assumed complete operational control of the Landsat 9 satellite from NASA today at the USGS Earth...

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New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released

New Landsat Collection 2 Science Products Released

Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Provisional Aquatic Reflectance (AR) and Level-3 Provisional Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) science products are now...

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Landsat Looks at the Moon

Landsat Looks at the Moon

On May 16, 2022, sky watchers were not the only ones observing the Moon during the longest total lunar eclipse in three decades. Two satellites that...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward

Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward

On July 23, 2022, Landsat—a space-based Earth observation program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA—marks a half century of...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Fifty Years of Landsat: Watchman for Wildfires

Earth imagery is fundamental to the USGS fire mission to understand the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire. Imagery and data from Landsat...

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Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Special Issue: Landsat Update 50th Anniversary

Landsat Updates are prepared periodically and distributed electronically to provide information about Landsat activities and related topics of...

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Fifty Years of Landsat: Impartial Eye on Climate Change

Fifty Years of Landsat: Impartial Eye on Climate Change

Landsat, a space-based Earth observation program conducted jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, celebrates a half century of providing a...

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Select Landsat 8 Scenes Acquired in May Recently Reprocessed

Select Landsat 8 Scenes Acquired in May Recently Reprocessed

Fifty-eight Landsat 8 scenes acquired from WRS-2 Paths 95, 111, and 127 from May 17, 2022 (DOY137) were reprocessed on July 12, 2022.

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Reminder: Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Data Processing and Distribution, Web Sites

Reminder: Upcoming Interruption to Landsat Data Processing and Distribution, Web Sites

Reminder: Maintenance planned for Saturday, July 16, 2022, will cause an extended interruption of Landsat data processing and data distribution...

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