{"id":1805389,"date":"2021-11-11T19:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805389"},"modified":"2021-11-11T19:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:54:25","slug":"first-images-from-landsat-9-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/first-images-from-landsat-9-released\/","title":{"rendered":"First Images from Landsat 9 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Landsat<\/a>
The first image from Landsat 9, taken on 31 October 2021, is of the Kimberly region of Western Australia. (NASA\/USGS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The latest of the Landsat satellites<\/a>, Landsat 9<\/a>, launched on September 27. Similar to Landsat 8 with slight equipment upgrades, it will replace Landsat 7 when it is fully operational next year. Right now it\u2019s going through its 100-day check-out, after which NASA will hand it over to the USGS<\/abbr>. As part of that check-out, its first images were recently released<\/a>. [NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest of the Landsat satellites, Landsat 9, launched on September 27. Similar to Landsat 8 with slight equipment upgrades, it will replace Landsat 7 when it is fully operational next year. Right now it\u2019s… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312,8],"tags":[73,12,16,34],"class_list":["post-1805389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-agriculture","category-weather-and-climate","tag-landsat","tag-nasa","tag-remote-sensing","tag-usgs","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1817567,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/the-aftermath-of-the-kakhovka-dams-destruction\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805389,"position":0},"title":"The Aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam’s Destruction","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"NASA Earth Observatory has before-and-after satellite imagery showing the impact of the destruction of Ukraine\u2019s Kakhovka Dam last month. 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