Feb11

LandsatLook Viewer – see changes in the landscape over 40 years

by TopSpacer on February 11, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Posted In: Eyes in the Sky

NASA launched today a new Landsat earth observation spacecraft, continuing the series of Landsat missions that go back to 1972: NASA launches $855 million Landsat mission – CBS News.

Check out this cool LandsatLook Viewer. You can compare images of a given location as seen by Landsats over the decades.

Update: Via the Original Rocket Dungeon comes this cool video of the separation of the Landsat spacecraft from the upper stage booster and then drifting toward the rising sunlight: