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NASA’s Earth Day tool spells your name with satellite images
The interactive website uses Landsat images to create personalized names and shows where each picture was taken, NASA said.
- On Wednesday, NASA's Kennedy Space Center launched an interactive web tool for Earth Day that spells user names with satellite imagery from Landsat, creating personalized designs using real pictures of Earth's landscapes.
- The Landsat program provides the world's longest continuous space-based record of Earth's land, operating consistently since 1972 to support global environmental monitoring and scientific research.
- Landsat's free and publicly accessible data contributed an estimated $25.6 billion to the United States economy in 2023 alone, according to NASA's website, demonstrating the program's broader economic impact.
- Entering any word into the website allows users to generate designs where each letter appears as a satellite photo of diverse locations like Russia, Louisiana, or Arkansas.
- This project aligns with Sustainability Week 2026, offering an enjoyable way to explore global environments while potentially inspiring environmental activism in those who use it.
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Write your name using satellite images
Nasa and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently launched “Your Name In Landsat", a website that allows anyone to generate their name or short words through landscape imagery from Nasa's Landsat satellites, in honour of Earth Day, which fell on April 22.
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Earth Day may be officially commemorated on April 22, but that doesn't mean it can't be celebrated year-round in myriad ways. One fun way? Online users can spell their name — or anything, really — with satellite images from all over the world, thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's powerful Landsat satellites. Using aerial images of various landscapes with distinct features and markings that resemble the letters of the L…
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