{"id":730579,"date":"2022-07-25T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730579"},"modified":"2022-07-25T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:23:34","slug":"landsat-legacy-nasa-usgs-program-observing-earth-from-space-turns-50-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730579","title":{"rendered":"Landsat legacy: NASA\u2013USGS program observing Earth from space turns 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched a new Earth-imaging satellite called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. &#8220;ERTS&#8221; was the first satellite of what later became NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey&#8217;s Landsat Program, an ambitious effort with a vision of documenting the entirety of Earth from space. The first Landsat was so successful it led to a series of satellites that have created the longest contiguous record of Earth&#8217;s surface from a space-eye view\u2014that continues growing to this day, 50 years later.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-landsat-legacy-nasausgs-earth-space.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landsat legacy: NASA\u2013USGS program observing Earth from space turns 50<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched a new Earth-imaging satellite called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. &#8220;ERTS&#8221; was the first satellite of what later became NASA and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}