Earth Right Now

2017

Global Climate Change Resources from NASA

(TW) https://twitter.com/NASAClimate
(TW) https://twitter.com/NASA
(TW) https://twitter.com/NASAJPL
#EarthRightNow https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EarthRightNow&src=tyah

NASA - Earth Research from Space

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2016

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.

Visit: http://go.nasa.gov/1N7eG6T

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Earth Science News/Highlights - 2015

Deep Cuts to NASA Earth Science Programs Threatened

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

JPL-NASA #EarthScience reporting on five new #EarthRightNow 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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Update on the DSCOVR Mission

Images of Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC in Lagrange orbit, a 'selfie' taken 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

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 -- we'll be delivering a stream of amazing imagery of our planet as NASA/NOAA begin uploading EPICs pictures of us!

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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]

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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 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

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 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