Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. The high-flying Landsat 5 celebrated a quarter-century in orbit March
1 by snapping an image of Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano, a peak that’s been
rumbling and threatening to erupt since November 2008. http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.com Since its
launch in 1984, the VW Beetle-sized craft has circled Earth at an
altitude of about 700 kilometers more than 130,000 times — once every
99 minutes, says Kristi Kline, program manager for Landsat at the U.S. |