Description
April 19, 2009, could have been a rare clear view of the island, but some of the data are missing because of Landsat 7’s Scan Line Corrector (SLC) malfunction of May 2003. Landsat 8, which launched in February 2013, has been more fortunate in its relatively short time in orbit to capture at least three clear views of the island: on March 8, 2014, March 11, 2015, and January 11, 2017. Those three images look about the same except for subtle changes to the mountain shadows caused by a different sun angle at different times of year.