{"id":203728,"date":"2025-04-22T01:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=852605"},"modified":"2025-04-22T01:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:46:22","slug":"celebrating-earth-as-only-nasa-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=203728","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA’s Earth Day Poster for 2025 uses imagery from the Landsat mission \u2014 a joint mission with USGS \u2014 to celebrate our home planet. <\/div>\n
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From the iconic image of Earthrise<\/a> taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot<\/a> image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such as PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), NASA has given us novel ways to see our home. This Earth Day, NASA is sharing how \u2014 by building on decades of innovation\u2014we use the unique vantage point of space to observe and understand our dynamic planet in ways that we cannot from the ground.<\/p>\n

NASA has been observing Earth from space for more than 60 years, with cutting-edge scientific technology that can revolutionize our understanding of our home planet and provide benefits to all humanity. NASA observations include land data that helps farmers improve crop production, research on the air we breathe, and studies of atmospheric layers high above us that protect every living thing on the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cNASA Science delivers every second of every day for the benefit all, and it begins with how we observe our home planet from the unique vantage point of space,\u201d said Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cOur satellites, Mars rovers, astronauts and other NASA Science missions send back beautiful images of our planet, from the smallest of plankton to the pale blue dot, to help give us a comprehensive, detailed view of our home that we especially celebrate each Earth Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA data and tools are vital to federal, state, local, and international governments to monitor and manage land, air, and water resources. From mapping the ocean floor to finding critical mineral deposits to alerting land managers when fire risk is high, NASA\u2019s data and information informs nearly every aspect of our economy and our lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother way NASA celebrates Earth Day is by sharing information about how our science benefits the entire nation, such as by providing U.S. farmers and ranchers with ongoing measurements of water, crop health, wildfire predictions, and knowledge of what is being grown around the world,\u201d said Karen St. Germain, director of NASA\u2019s Earth Science Division at the agency\u2019s headquarters in Washington. \u201cThis data informs field level farming and ranching decisions with impact felt as far as the commodity-trading floor and our grocery stores.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up for NASA\u2019s work to help mitigate natural disasters is a mission called NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) which is a partnership between NASA and ISRO (India Space Research Organization). NISAR, which is targeted to launch later this year, will measure land changes from earthquakes, landslides, and volcanos, producing more NASA science data to aid in disaster response. The mission\u2019s radar will detect movements of the planet\u2019s surface as small as 0.4 inches over areas about the size of half a tennis court. By tracking subtle changes in Earth\u2019s surface, it will spot warning signs of imminent volcanic eruptions, help to monitor groundwater supplies, track the melt rate of ice sheets tied to sea level rise, and observe shifts in the distribution of vegetation around the world. <\/p>\n

From our oceans to our skies, to our ice caps, to our mountains, and to our rivers and streams, NASA\u2019s Earth observations enhance our understanding of the world around us and celebrate the incredible planet we call home.<\/p>\n

To download NASA\u2019s 2025 Earth Day poster, visit:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/nasa.gov\/earthdayposters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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