This true-color reflectance image of Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans was captured on February 2, 2025, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard the Landsat 8 satellite. On Sunday, February 9, Super Bowl LIX—the annual championship game of the U.S. National Football League—will be held in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
The image from OLI instrument aboard the joint NASA-USGS Landsat 8 spacecraft is from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project. HLS provides 30-meter resolution, true-color surface reflectance imagery from the OLI and OLI-2 instruments on Landsat 8 and 9 satellites and from the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2 satellites. Data from the four instruments are processed through a set of algorithms to make the imagery consistent and comparable. This processing includes atmospheric correction, cloud and cloud-shadow masking, spatial co-registration and common gridding, illumination and view angle normalization, and spectral bandpass adjustment.
To get a closer look at New Orleans and the Superdome, see the Earth Observatory story A Super Stadium.
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