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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.

The passage was most likely written to inform readers of

(A)scientific opinion of the Landsat Program
(B)government involvement in the Landsat Program
(C)difficulties faced by the Landsat Program
(D)the many uses of the Landsat Program's records


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Okay sy reading shmoop er's Here we go Another paragraphs

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passage was most likely written to inform readers of what

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Okay let's go read the passage Landsat program fried lungs

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continuous space based wreck divers land in existence Since nineteen

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seventy landsat satellites have collected measurements first continents and surrounding

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coastal regions have enabled people to study forthe food production

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water land use ecosystems geology and more along data recorders

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and assigned to evaluate the dynamic changes caused above natural

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process and human practices huh But landsat program offers date

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on many things continents coastal regions ecosystem split ends and

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so on Okay maybe not that last one but it

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might as well for all the stuff it covers After

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briefly introducing the landsat program as the longest continuous space

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based record of earth's land article goes on to describe

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its many uses So there we go it's a d

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right there And though this is a very scientific article

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there's no discussion of the program's merits or shortcomings so

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get rid of a nor does the passage reference government

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involved under difficulties So it's not being c that's it

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it's tea and remember this is only the stuff they

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tell you They're surveying You don't know what they're actually

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surveying up there So you know watching x files episode

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and think that

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