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Landsat Launch A Space-Age Spectacle

By kevpod

Prior to 2008, images were pricey and accessed at a rate of about 20,000 per year. Since, it is offered open source and the use has grown to three-plus million and is expected to continue to climb with the improved imaging available on Landsat 8. »

Curiosity, Before She Went to Mars – August 7, 2012

By kevpod

We were patient with the half-hour process to clean our photographic gear, don the suits and then go through the whole body vacuum room before entering. No speck of dust from our visit would travel to Mars, but perhaps a sticky carbon dioxide molecule exhaled by one of us would. »