NASA Satellite Captures Super Bowl Cities - Boston/Providence [annotated]

Landsat 7 image of Boston/Providence area acquired August 25, 2014.

Landsat 7 is a U.S. satellite used to acquire remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface and surrounding coastal regions. It is maintained by the Landsat 7 Project Science Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

Landsat satellites have been acquiring images of the Earth’s land surface since 1972. Currently there are more than 2 million Landsat images in the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive.

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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 7

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