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Landsat: 40 Years of Earth Observation
July 23, 2012 | USGS

“The Department of the Interior and NASA today mark the fortieth anniversary of the Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first Landsat satellite was launched on July 23, 1972.”


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