It’s the iconic “Earthrise” photo. Of course, this isn’t one of 2022’s images of Earth from space that I’m showcasing below. But I thought I should start with it — for context.

Landsat is an Earth resources monitoring satellite program designed to compile a complete picture of the globe every 16 days (or every 8 days when two satellites are active.

The following amazing images of Earth from space were snapped by satellites in the Landsat project, a joint venture between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The project is the longest ...

Earth As Art: 'How Did Nature Do That?' Satellites help track storms, power the GPS signals in our cars and phones and beam TV signals around the world.

Virginia Norwood, pioneered Earth imagery as ‘Mother of Landsat,’ dies at 96. A male colleague once quit rather than work under Ms. Norwood’s leadership. When he asked to return, ...