Editing Landsat program (section)

==== Shrinking of the Aral Sea ====
The shrinking of the [[Aral Sea]] has been described as "One of the planet's worst environmental disasters". Landsat imagery has been used as a record to quantify the amount of water loss and the changes to the shoreline. Satellite visual images have a greater impact on people than just words, and this shows the importance of Landsat imagery and satellite images in general.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/07/landsat-40-significant-images/|title=Landsat's Most Historically Significant Images of Earth From Space|last=Mason|first=Betsy|date=March 2017|magazine=Wired}}</ref>