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NASA's latest Earth-observing instrument is complete and ready for space.
Built by Ball Aerospace,
the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) will detect visible and infrared light
reflected from the Earth's surface.
Observing the same location every 16 days,
OLI-2 will continue five decades of observations
detecting deforestation
monitoring crop conditions
tracking potentially toxic algal blooms
and watching the human imprint on our planet.
Now complete, OLI-2 is ready for its next step:
assembly on to the Landsat 9 spacecraft.