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The Landsat Program provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth's land in existence. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected measurements of Earth's continents and surrounding coastal regions that have enabled people to study forests, food production, water and land use, ecosystems, geology, and more. The long data record allows scientists to evaluate the dynamic changes caused by both natural processes and human practices.

This passage is mainly about the Landsat Program's

(A)techniques for collecting measurements
(B)study of the Earth's forestry
(C)space-based record of Earth's land
(D)data collection of human processes


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Okay sy readings Bumpers Here we go last of the

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siri's five five and we're just going to sit down

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to the question This passage is mainly about the land

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sat programs What All right let's go back to paragraph

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The landsat program provides the longest continuous space based record

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of earth's land in existence Since nineteen seventy landsat satellites

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have collected measurements of earth continents in surrounding coastal regions

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that have enabled people to steady forest food production water

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and land use ecosystem geology and more along data record

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allows scientists to evaluate the dynamic changes caused by both

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natural process and human practices who sounds like fodder for

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future global warming Fingerpointing that'll be interesting Well the paragraph

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focuses on the land sat program what it does and

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how scientists use the information and gathers right well these

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bleeping blinking kind of onerous looking satellites hang around taking

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pictures of earth and you and me just like big

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brother and transmitting data back to the motherland That's what

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they do so it's a space based record of earth's

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planned Alright loser bowl here while the pastors doesn't actually

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tell us how the satellite take measurements and force or

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just one example yeah finally the data reveals important info

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about human and unnatural plain animal processes Yeah kind of 00:01:15.222 --> [endTime] like shmoop

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