From satellite imagery to scientific insights, USGS EROS Center plays a crucial role in Earth science.🌎 📸EROS has more than 70 petabytes of digital satellite imagery and over 14 million images of Earth! (1 PB= about 7,813 smartphones with 128 GB of storage each) 🐘Landsat data from the USGS has been used to track everything from elephant habitats and penguin droppings! 📍: USGS Earth Resources Observation & Science Center - EROS | Experience Sioux Falls

Ancient Impact Crater & 'Eye' of Quebec in Canada | Landsat 8 Satellite | USGS FriendsofNASA.org: A large, round lake in Quebec, Canada, highlights the geography of an ancient impact crater. In the late Triassic Period, a 3 mile wide meteorite struck northern Pangea at over 30,000 miles per hour. The resulting crater is now 214 million years old, but the dramatic circular lake visible in 2024 Landsat imagery is a surprisingly recent feature. It was the completion of the Daniel-Johnson Dam in 196

Earthquake! This animated map uses U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data to map earthquake events with a magnitude of 6.0 and greater from 1900 to November 2019. Watch it full-screen at 4K resolution on YouTube: http://ow.ly/9le050xwQCi | Esri