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Landsat 7 Satellite Might Be Dead

Posted by timothy on from the pings-go-unanswered dept.

Lord Satri writes "Landsat 7 ETM+ remote sensing satellite, probably the most important Earth Observation satellite, might be dead now. This would have very important repercussions on the remote sensing / space community."

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  1. Software fix? by DustMagnet · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It looks to me like software fix would be possible, but the quality will be reduced. From this page it looks like a broken SLC would reduce the resolution of the image.

    The images must not look too bad, since it took them over a week to notice the problem.

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