EarthPOV

An Earth Point of View -- Here's Looking at Us

Earth360 ~ from the International Space Station

All Alone in the Night - Settings Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up, lean back and fly

The View Outside My Window-Vimeo The View-YouTube - FULL 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, go 'Original' for 2160p - HD 4K

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With appreciation ~ the Overview Effect

Overview -- Planetary

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Earth Point of View / Whole Earth Perspective

December 2014

@Astro_Alex flies home, @Astro_Samanatha flies up

File:Fly over Florida to the Bahamas AstroSamantha Dec23,2014.jpg One of Sam's first pix

November 2014

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_One_Connected_System_-Earth360.png

Astronauts on the way home

Circling #Earth360 before heading home [1] [2]

November 9th, ISS News

Three of our favorite astronauts return to Earth from the International Space Station.

We've been receiving many absolutely beautiful photos from them with their expressions of awe.

What they see and experience opens eyes and truly communicates here at 'home.'

Our "whole Earth" and a "narrow", "thin layer of atmosphere."

http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/

How amazing it is to have 'tweets' and 'blogging' from an int'l 'bird' flying high over our blue planet.

https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex -- https://twitter.com/astro_reid

Astronaut Alex Gerst / Blog [3]

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GreenPolicy360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..."

Seeing how thin our atmosphere is [4] [5] Atmosphere - Wiki Earth's atmosphere - #EnvironmentalSecurity

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." [6]

We are just beginning to geo-monitor our thin atmosphere and biosphere from space...

Astronaut Gerst on the thin atmospheric layer 'enabling life as we know it'...

'Earthshine'... The Space Station basking in blue Earthshine as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere to cover the Space Station with blue light.

I’ll never forget this place…seeing this makes the heart soar and the soul sing. -- Astronaut Wheelock

Watching the Earth Breathe from Space [7] [8] [9] [10]

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December 2014

Global Warming / NASA Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014 04:15 PM ET

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1st light! OCO-2 announces their data!

August 2014

The newly launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory is now at the front of the international “Afternoon Constellation,” the “A-Train” of Earth-observing satellites in orbit. Their synchronized collection of data is a first and advances #earthmonitoring with a qualitative, quantum leap. Go we go!! Orbiting Carbon Observatory And while the A Train rolls on in the sky, maybe you'd like to listen to old but always good Duke Ellington's A Train ;-)

The image [spectra image below] shows some of the first data taken by OCO-2 as it flew over Papua-New Guinea forests on August 6, 2014. Each plot shows three different spectra, or wavelength, observed by the satellite’s spectrometers: 760 nanometers (atmospheric oxygen), 1610 nanometers (carbon dioxide), and 2060 nanometers (carbon dioxide).

As OCO-2 flies over Earth’s sunlit hemisphere, each spectrometer collects a frame three times per second (a total of about 9,000 frames from each orbit). Each frame is divided into eight spectra that record the amount of molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide over adjacent ground footprints, each of which is about 2.25 kilometers (1.39 miles) long and a few hundred meters wide. When displayed as an image, the spectra appear like bar codes. The dark lines indicate absorption by molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide.

“The initial data from OCO-2 appear exactly as expected; the spectra lines are well resolved, sharp, and deep,” says OCO-2 chief architect Randy Pollock of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“We still have a lot of work to do to go from having a working instrument to having a well-calibrated and scientifically useful instrument, but this was an amazingly important milestone.”

To put the spectra in context, the natural-color image here shows the cloudy, forested scene below OCO-2 just minutes after it collected its data.

The color image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite in the A Train orbit.

Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2 The historic launch #planetcitizen mission to study #earthsatmosphere [11] [12]

OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'

What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 #Earth360 [13]

Looking closer at OCO-2

Beginning with first 'whole earth' images of our home planet, taken in the Apollo era... [14] [15]

We are now flying earth-monitoring #micro-satellites producing first-generation data and #sustainability realizations... [16]

NASA's Earth Right Now transitioning from military to environmental security...

NASA establishing itself "as a world leader in Earth science and climate studies..."

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Scientific consensus on Climate Change [24]

IPCC Report, Nov 2014

OCO-2

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About EarthPOV

EarthPOV's point of view re: AGW/Anthropogenic Global Warming

While the debate continues [e.g., addressing concerns of 'skeptics'] on the science of global warming/climate change, the issues of data reporting, modeling, statistics, temperature trends globally and locally, and the politics and economics of climate science reports, the EarthPOV site takes a simple Global Warming/Climate Change position:

Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.

Science is needed to 'measure and manage' #PlanetEarth in sustainable, productive and life enhancing ways.

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