Landsat 8 to the rescue ∞

Jeff Tollefson, reporting for Nature:

With the passing of Landsat 5, the future of the world’s longest-running — and perhaps most influential — set of data on global change rests with Landsat 8, which is scheduled to launch next week from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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