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Hot and Cold in the Arizona Desert

The Thermal Infrared Sensor on the newest Landsat provides insight into something invisible to human eyes: the temperature of the land surface.


Images by Robert Simmon, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published April 18, 2013
Data acquired March 31, 2013

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 8 > TIRS