Officials at NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) are proud to announce that their joint mission, the Landsat-8 Earth-observations satellite, has just turned 1 in low-Earth orbit. The spacecraft was launched on February 11, 2013, and finally began its mission on May 30, 2013. At that time, NASA gave over controls of the mission – then called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission – over to the USGS. Since then, Landsat-8 has provided a wealth of data for its mis...
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