How environmental journalists can use NASA’s new Landsat 9 satellite

Environmental journalists may lack resources at times. But they do have at least one — whiz-bang satellites to help them explain how Earth is changing.

And in September, NASA launched another one. Landsat 9, the latest in the almost 50-year-old series, went up September 27. After about three months of shakedown and calibration, it will be regularly downloading data to anyone who asks.

And yes, ordinary journalists can get stories from it, though it might be an idea to work with tech-savvy collaborators.

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