How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet

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How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet
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The pioneering satellite program has provided the longest continuous document of how fire, global warming, and humanity are remaking our world.

Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical naming convention. It will also be an upgrade.

But with the hundreds of private Earth-observing satellites in orbit, providing higher-resolution data more frequently, why does the government need to run Landsat at all? Well, for one thing, Landsat data is free.

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