Overview
- NASA released “Your Name in Landsat,” a public website that builds words from satellite photos of Earth’s landscapes.
- Users type a name and the tool selects letter-shaped views from around the world, then displays where each image was taken and on what date.
- NASA’s Kennedy Space Center promoted the site as an Earth Day activity to invite people to explore satellite imagery.
- The feature showcases Landsat, a joint NASA–USGS effort that has mapped Earth’s land continuously since 1972, creating the longest record of its kind.
- NASA reports the program’s free data contributed an estimated $25.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023 through research, planning, and natural resource decisions.