Landsat satellites circle the globe every 99 minutes, collecting data about the land surfaces passing underneath. After 16 days, the Landsat satellite has passed over every spot on the globe, and recorded data in 11 different wavelength regions. The individual wavelength bands can be combined into color images, with different combinations of the 11 bands revealing different information about the condition of the land cover. The data for this video was collected by Landsat 5 on November 10, 2011.
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GSFC_20140224_Landsat_m11491_OnionSkin
Date Created
February 24, 2014
Center
GSFC
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video
Photographer
Robert Andreoli
Location
Goddard Space Flight Center
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