If you liked this story, share it with other people. Landsat 8 launched this February and has been capturing images since April. The satellite orbits Earth every 99 minutes and captures images of ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public ...

In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million “scenes” captured, a motherlode of images ...

NASA, working jointly with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), is preparing to launch the United States’ next Earth-monitoring satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on February 11. The ...

Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK The successful launch Feb. 11 of the Landsat 8 Earth observation satellite brought sighs of relief from ...

Scientists recently recorded the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record set in 1983 and uncovering a new puzzle about the ice-covered ...

The launch next week comes at a time when the future of the world's longest-running set of Earth-observations data is at stake When Landsat 5 fell silent on 6 January, scientists across the globe ...

On Feb. 11, 2013, the Landsat 8 satellite rocketed into a sunny California morning onboard a powerful Atlas V and began its life in orbit. In the year since launch, scientists have been working to ...