Earth Right Now
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- (TW) https://twitter.com/NASA
- (TW) https://twitter.com/NASAJPL
- #EarthRightNow https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EarthRightNow&src=tyah
- Friday, Jan 16, 2015 / "2014 warmest year in modern record" https://twitter.com/NASA/status/556118400531832833/photo/1
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Feb 26, 2015 JPL-NASA #EarthSciences, reporting on five new #EarthRightNow missions -- teleconference
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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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.
"Another sensor, PlasMag, would 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, would 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]
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Earth Science Research from Space
OCO-2 Historic Mission to Study the Earth's Atmosphere
NASA Challenges Public to Join In
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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 the high resolution detail, click on the gear symbol, set to 720p resolution and choose full screen video
"Pulse of the Planet" / HD Video -- bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet
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- Earth Right Now
- 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 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
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Quick view of current generation programs...
Responding to the Challenge of Climate and Environmental Change
Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps
Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system
Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite to launch in 2017
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"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."
ESE's Mission: "To improve life here" and "to understand and protect our home planet."
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Eyes on the Earth - Earth Right Now
Earth Data, Earth Observatory, Images, Grace, Grace-JPL, Grace-UTexas
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Visible Earth, Global Maps, Visible Earth_2, Visible Earth_3, Visible Earth_4
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Monitoring #Earth at night [3] [4] [5] [6]
![[4]](http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Americas_after_dark.jpg){kind=link}
![[5]](http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Asia_from_Suomi_satellite.jpg){kind=link}
![[6]](http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Europe_and_N_Africa_at_night_SUOMI.jpg){kind=link}
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- Earth Right Now
The earth is an integrated system that we need to understand as a system if we are to predict the future of the earth
In the late 1980s NASA embraced the concept of earth system science... the global perspective of earth
the mission to the planet earth and the earth observing system
they will continue
We are in a race against time
We need the best possible scientific understanding... to protect and preserve
and adapt
as 'wise stewards'
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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
#EarthScience #Earth360 #GP360 #EarthPOV