EO-1's primary focus is to develop and test a set of advanced technology land imaging instruments. Learn more about EO-1 . The three remote sensing intruments on EO-1 are the Advanced Land Imager, the Hyperion Imaging Spectrometer and the Linear Images Spectromenter Array Atmospheric Corrector. Landsat Satellites have recorded millions of images that are a unique resource for global change research and other applications. Learn here how Landsat data has been used extensively in agriculture and geology, global change science, education and national security.
Geologists use the data to map geological structures and rock formation over large areas.
They also use the data to continue studies of features that record past climate changes. On one Shuttle flight, equipment was able to penetrate extremely dry sand and discovered ancient river channels in portions of the Sahara Desert and the lost city of Ubar. Click for more pictures , and possibly your hometown.