Look at how thin our atmosphere is

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." [1]

June 17 - Alexander Gerst on the #ISS [2]

A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it... [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

We are just beginning to geo-monitor our thin atmosphere, earth and biosphere from space... [11]

Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era... [12] [13]

We are now flying eyes-in-the-sky, earth-monitoring producing first-generation data and #sustainability realizations.

An #EarthPOV a visual Overview that, over time, will educate and inform us...

Seeing how thin our atmosphere is

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2): A game changer? http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105 [14]

Seeing climate change from space: NASA creates image-based iPad app [15]

Soon, each of us will be able to connect to and share earth-data, students of earth-space science and new networks.

With open data, links and digital apps, schools and future generations will learn new ways of seeing home as citizens of the planet.

Our #EarthPOV Overview is of 'the only home we've known'...

Isn't it about time we look carefully? [16] [17]

Earth's tropospheric layer, our envelope of breath and life...

The "paper thin" layer absorbing human-produced hydrocarbon & emission "externalities" [18]

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space..."

- Astronaut Alexander Gerst, June 2014

http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst

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Tag: #EarthPOV; #Overview; #Troposphere; #ThinLayer

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