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The Many Hues of London
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Published August 1, 2012
While a typical digital camera takes one picture of a scene based on information from the visible spectrum, Landsat generates multiple views of everything it images.
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Ouachita Mountains
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Published July 23, 2012
Landsat images the Earth’s surface in a series of scenes 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide. Landsat 7 is currently collecting data, but suffered a failure in 2003 that leaves gaps between scan lines.
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Pinta Island
Published July 21, 2012
The island is a small but mighty example of compelling Galápagos biology.
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Rondônia, Brazil
Published July 19, 2012
These Landsat images of Amazonian deforestation in Rondônia, a state in Western Brazil, provided conclusive, impartial evidence of the increasing loss of global tropical rainforests.
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Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
In 2007, Landsat 7 images were used to create the first ever, high-resolution, true color map of Antarctica.
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Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia
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Published July 7, 2012
Kalimantan was once a lush tropical landscape full of valuable tropical timber. Now forests are gradually being cleared and replaced by palm oil plantations.
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A Monster Slide
Published June 16, 2012
A landslide in eastern Tibet backed up the Yigong River for two months.
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