# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CV6Qxdqp1zH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733181-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-11-05T22:07:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

📸 New album just dropped: EARTH 

You’re looking at the first images captured by #Landsat 9, a joint Earth-observing mission in partnership with USGS. 

Since 1972, Landsat data has provided a unique resource for those who work in agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global-change research. Landsat images have also proved invaluable to the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters, supporting emergency response and disaster relief to save lives. 

With the addition of Landsat 9, the Landsat program’s record of land imaging will be extended to over half a century. Swipe through to see: 

1. The remote coastal islands and inlets of the Kimberley region of Western Australia – Landsat 9’s first image. 

2. The Navajo Nation. Communities like these in the Western U.S. rely on Landsat and other satellite data to help monitor drought conditions and manage water resources. 

3. The glaciers and meltwater lakes of High Mountain Asia in the Himalayas. Glaciers provide drinking water for communities in the region. Landsat helps track the growth and changes to the glaciers and lakes. 

4. Both Detroit, Michigan and Winsor, Ontario featuring Lake Erie. In warmer months, Landsat 9 will help monitor potentially harmful algal blooms in lakes like these. 

5.  The white sands of Pensacola Beach and the Florida Panhandle. Landsat and other remote sensing satellites help track changes to US coastlines, including urban development and potential impacts of rising sea levels.

Credit: NASA/USGS

#NASA #Earth #Geography #ClimateChange #GreatLakes #Navajo #ScienceFacts #Glacier #Himalayas #Australia #EarthPics

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earthpics, himalayas, glacier, greatlakes, landsat, earth, nasa, australia, sciencefacts, climatechange, geography, navajo

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