Earth Right Now

Earth Science Vital Signs

Earth Right Now

2019

Earth Observation System / EOS

https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/nasas-earth-observing-system-project-science-office

Earth Right Now (Daily via NASA)

• (TW) https://twitter.com/NASAClimate

• (TW) https://twitter.com/NASA

• (TW) https://twitter.com/NASAJPL

Earth Right Now @NASA online

Earth Research from Space @ GreenPolicy online

2018

Global Climate Change Resources from NASA

• https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html

2017

2017 Takes Second Place for Hottest Year

2016

Science in the Cause of National & Global Security

NASA Announcement: Unlimited access to the 16-plus-year database for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan) Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument, which flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite. ASTER’s database, more than 2.95 million individual scenes is worldwide....

"We anticipate a dramatic increase in the number of users of our data, with new and exciting results to come," said Michael Abrams, ASTER science team leader at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, home to ASTER's U.S. science team.

2015

From Above We See Our Planet: High Definition Video from NASA

JPL-NASA #EarthScience from space / Five new #EarthNow missions

• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4487

• http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/EarthNowBriefing.html

• https://mobile.twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/570751539092045825/photo/1

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The DSCOVR Mission

Images of Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC in Lagrange orbit, daily 'selfies' from a million miles away

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSCOVR-EPIC_187_1003705_m_americas_dxm.png

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSCOVR-Day_before_Christmas2015_m.jpg

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DSCOVR is launched and on its way!

Feb 12, 2015 The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package is on the way... a million mile journey, in approx four months, it will light up, be tested and begin delivering data to Earth, including near-real-time imaging of Earth provided online.

GreenPolicy360 is assisting NASA DSCOVR mission managers and we will be delivering a stream of amazing imagery of our planet as NASA/NOAA begin uploading EPICs pictures of ... Planet Earth 'selfies'!

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Feb 8, 2015 DSCOVR, EPIC and PlasMag ready to launch

NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, DSCOVR carries three advanced instruments -- an 'Earthcam' capability instrument called EPIC, which can see visible light and "wavelengths that can tell scientists about aerosols, which cool the atmosphere, and about ozone, clouds, vegetation, and ultraviolet light... EPIC will capture 'whole earth' images, the first that will be made available since Apollo's mission in 1972.

"Another sensor, PlasMag, will keep an eye on solar weather and give the Earth updates whenever a storm on the Sun threatened to fry broad swaths of the electrical grid. That's a high-risk, low-probability event that has never happened at the feared scale. Fortunately. Yet.

"The third instrument, NISTAR, will help calculate the Earth’s energy “budget,” the measurement perhaps most critical to understanding global warming: Is more heat coming in than is going out?" [Bloomberg]

History-making Earth Science

Earth Science Research from Space / #EarthScience

OCO-2 Historic Mission to Study the Earth's Atmosphere

NASA announces OCO-2 as "game changer"

NASA Challenges Public to Join In

Monitoring the Home Planet

As the realization of the critical importance of studying life systems of the planet has grown, the priorities of NASA have shifted.

The incoming US Congress will have to address the evident risks and dangers to the planet, even though its leadership denies risks and dangers.

As we review the latest from the US space agency's new focus, take a look at Pulse of the Planet, Vital Signs released Sept 2014...

To fully appreciate pulse's high resolution detail, click on the gear symbol, set it to 720p resolution and choose full screen video

"Pulse of the Planet" / HD Video

bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet

Earth Right Now

Vital Signs

Earth Science, Vital Signs

NASA Climate: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Where did Earth Right Now start as a mission?

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) -- Originally called "Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)"

NASA's Earth Science Division' plans and manages earth science programs including Earth Right Now.

"The Earth Science Enterprise (ESE)is dedicated to "understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment."

NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) provides "long-term global observations of land surfaces, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans."

The Earth Science Projects Division manages the missions which advance our understanding of the Earth.

NASA's Earth Observing System Project Office

Earth Science Missions in Space (circa 2017-18)

NASA Earth Science: Critical Science, Vital Signs

Current Generation Earth Research from Space, Missions and Programs

Responding to the Challenge of Climate and Environmental Change

Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps

The Science of CYGNSS

Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system

Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite

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http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/lsip.shtml

http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/satellites_midres1.shtml

http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/satellites_midres2.shtml

http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/satellites_midres3.shtml

http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/overview.shtml

http://eros.usgs.gov/ceos/sensors_midres8.shtml

"The ultimate beneficiaries are the present and future generations of the people on Earth..."

"The goal of the Earth Observing project is improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system."

"Earth Science: "To improve life here" and "to understand and protect our home planet."

Eyes on the Earth - Earth Right Now

Earth Data, Earth Observatory

Images

Grace

Grace-JPL

Grace-UTexas

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NASA Chief Scientist

Earth Missions List

Visible Earth, Global Maps

Visible Earth_2, Visible Earth_3

Visible Earth_4

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Planet Citizens, Y/Our Planet Is Changing

NPP Images Gallery

www.PlanetCitizen.org

www.PlanetCitizens.org

We need to develop Earth Science as a comprehensive factual set of measurements if we are to secure and manage the future of the Earth Systems

In the 1980s, the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee led a new Earth vision and NASA embraced the concept of Earth system science with a global perspective of Earth monitoring

The continuing mission of NASA, its partners and Earth Science research remains vital to [1] new understandings of national and global security

We are in a race against time

We need the best possible scientific knowledge to protect and preserve "The Commons"

as 'wise stewards' securing communities, nations and global eco-systems

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"We shall never cease from exploration

and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

– T.S. Eliot

Terra - Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer ...

#EarthScience #PlanetCitizens #PlanetCitizens, PlanetScientists #EarthPOV