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For Further InformationLandsat 9 continues a 50-year record of Earth’s land, collecting 740 scenes a day and, with Landsat 8, seeing each place every 8 days.
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The latest Landsat satellite, collecting 740 scenes of Earth each day, almost double its minimum requirement.
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Orbiting with Landsat 8, so the pair observes the same location on Earth every 8 days.
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The longest continuous satellite record of Earth’s land surface shows how forests, water and farms change.
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Near-weekly Landsat observations enable tropical deforestation alerts, water quality monitoring and crop condition reports. NASA says Landsat’s free, public data contributed an estimated $25.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023 alone.
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Landsat supports water management in drought-prone regions where farms, industry and communities compete for water, and its free data added an estimated $25.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023.
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With Landsat 8, it delivers near-weekly tropical deforestation alerts and water quality monitoring, including in the Great Lakes. See also Forests and Lakes.
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