US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the powerful Landsat 9 satellite at 11:41 pm on Tuesday.
“As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify in the United States and across the globe, Landsat 9 will provide data and imagery to help make science-based decisions on key issues,” Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, said.
Landsat 9 will join its sister satellite, Landsat 8, in orbit and will work in tandem to collect images of earth once in eight days.
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