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Earth Science Lifts off from the California Coast

The new Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite captured a glimpse of Vandenberg Air Force Base and the central California coast. Vandenberg has been the launch site for a majority of U.S. Earth science research missions.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Earth Science Lifts off from the California Coast.

Images by Robert Simmon, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA. Caption by Mike Carlowicz and Holli Riebeek.

Published April 11, 2013
Data acquired March 22, 2013

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI