{"id":575,"date":"2013-02-11T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2013-02-11T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:37:08","slug":"landsatlook-viewer-see-changes-in-the-landscape-over-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"LandsatLook Viewer &#8211; see changes in the landscape over 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA launched today a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/landsat\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Landsat<\/a> earth observation spacecraft, continuing the series of Landsat missions that go back to 1972: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-205_162-57568756\/nasa-launches-$855-million-landsat-mission\/\" target=\"_d\">NASA launches $855 million Landsat mission &#8211; CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this cool <a href=\"http:\/\/landsatlook.usgs.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">LandsatLook Viewer<\/a>. You can compare images of a given location as seen by Landsats over the decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Via <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketdungeon.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/landsat-in-space-video.html\" target=\"_d\">the Original Rocket Dungeon<\/a> comes this cool video of the separation of the Landsat spacecraft from the upper stage booster and then drifting toward the rising sunlight:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=d7f21bc9ac&#038;photo_id=8465269711\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LandsatLook Viewer &#8211; see changes in the landscape over 40 years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-in-the-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-9h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3466,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3466","url_meta":{"origin":575,"position":0},"title":"Mars: Signs of an ancient sea + The 2020 rover begins to take shape","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A group at Caltech has been studying images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a 100-square-kilometer area with\u00a0ridge-like features that lies next to a region called\u00a0Aeolis Dorsa that has been speculated to be a dried-up ocean bottom. 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