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First US map made by USGA
The USGA made its first map as the year it was founded byb congress for the purpose of the "classifacation of public lands." -
The first known map 2300 B.C.
Made on a clay tablet about in ancient Sumeria. -
NASA launched the first satallite
NASA launched landsat which was the first sataalite, the photos gathered by it and its succesors showed Earth in a way it had never been seen. -
Landsat used to find dinosaur location
A team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History used landsat to find dinosaur locations and early mammal fossils in the Gobi Desert -
NASA launched another satallite
The Earth Observing System (EOS) unlike landsat EOS does not provide high-resolution images of Earth instead it provides precise measurements of Earth's processes, such as air-land and air-sea exchanges of energy, carbon, and water.
