Capital Weather Gang New Earth-observing satellite beams back first images. Landsat 9, launched in September by NASA and USGS, offers ultra-detailed views of the Earth’s surface.

Launched in 2012, the USGS STEP-UP program uses students on the spectrum for a myriad of projects, including typing up records from tagged birds, sorting microfossils, identifying species on trail-cam ...

Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that launched Sept. 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth.

Rob Thieler, a USGS scientist who was the lead developer of iPlover, said data gathered by the app over the next few years could help scientists understand where to focus their restoration efforts. It ...