Outreach

Since 1972, Landsat satellites have orbited Earth, sending back millions of images of our changing planet. Have fun at home learning more about the Landsat mission and our home planet with hands-on activities, interactives, and animations.

We encourage you to contact us with questions and feedback and to share ideas about learning and teaching with Landsat.

This virtual camp explores how Landsat satellites help manage, protect, and preserve some of your favorite places on Earth. Your virtual camp counselors have curated an exciting collection of videos, interactives, and downloadable activities you can do at home or with friends of all ages.

Explore a collection of games and activities that highlight how scientists use Landsat data to study Earth’s changing surface. From tracking forest health to monitoring urban growth, these activities investigate Landsat’s benefits to society.

This collection of printable outreach materials explores how Landsat data have helped benefit society for over 50 years. Included are storybooks, lithographs, and more, covering topics from freshwater resources to Earth resources seen from space.

STELLA is a portable scientific instrument developed to support education and outreach and to promote engagement, inquiry, and discovery. Through the assembly and operation of a STELLA device, learners and citizen scientists of all ages can gain hands-on experience about remote sensing technology, principles, and applications.

This collection features Landsat images and resources to help you teach about our changing planet, the electromagnetic spectrum, the science and technology behind satellite data, and much more. Landsat supports a fundamentally spatial approach to learning and thinking about the world.

Latest Outreach Events
NASA Earth Science Division Director Karen St. Germain speaks in front of a large screen to a group of listeners on stools.

Connecting Farmers with NASA Data at Commodity Classic

The most common question at the NASA booth at Commodity Classic was, “What does NASA do for agriculture?” The answer was perhaps best summed up by Karen St. Germain, Director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, in a Hyperwall talk delivered at the convention. St. Germain laid out how NASA data could strengthen food security, improve agricultural resilience, and help farmers do what they do best: farm.

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Landsat outreach specialist Allison Nussbaum and GEDI/UMD Faculty Specialist Talia Schwelling hold Landsat/GEDI postcards at the NASA exhibit booth at AGU24.

Landsat at AGU24

The NASA Landsat Science and Outreach teams attended the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in DC in December. At AGU24, they shared research and educated the public about Landsat.

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