NASA’s New Tool Lets You Spell Your Name Using Satellite Images of Earth

NASA marked Earth Day by launching an interactive tool to make satellite imageries ‘write” users’ names, or any word prompt for that matter, much to netizen’s delight. 

The digital tool, called ‘Your Name in Landsat’, allows users to “type in their name then view and export the graphic of that name spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images,” the website explained. 

One only needs to type in the word into the dialogue box and press enter, and a row of Landsat images makes a collage where the letters of the word are scrawled on wildernesses, sand dunes, and even ocean wave patterns.

The prompt draws



images that resemble alphabets from the extensive data base of satellite photographs from long-running Landsat programme, a joint NASA and United States Geological Survey initiative, making earth-monitoring a much more fun activity even for geology enthusiasts and laymen alike. 

Considered the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s surface, Landsat is a reliable resource for scientists studying long-term changes on the earth’s surface. 

“Researchers have used Landsat’s archive to study how cities have grown, coastlines have shifted, crop cycles have changed, and forests have transformed since the 1970s,” as noted by the space agency.