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Description	English: Orbital path of Landsat 8 descending / day. Quotes: "Temporal coverage: 11 February 2013 - Present"; "Overpass times are shown in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Landsat 8 is on a sun-synchronous orbit from north to south at an altitude of 705 km (438 mi) with an equatorial crossing time of 10:11 a.m. +/- 15 minutes mean local time on each pass to provide maximum illumination with minimum water vapor (haze and cloud build-up)"
Date	19 October 2024
Source	'Layers' -> 'Orbit Tracks and Overpass Times' -> 'Info' on https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:today;@0.00,0.00,14.00z
Author	Imagery from LANCE FIRMS operated by NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) with funding provided by NASA Headquarters.

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