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Celebrate Earth Day 2017 (22 April)! Touch the Clouds and #AdoptThePlanet

Apr 18, 2017

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There are many compelling, enduring, and innovative ways to celebrate Earth Day this year (22 April). The GLOBE Program encourages our community to get involved in two incredible and over-the-top ways to celebrate our amazing planet – “A Day of Cloud Observations” and “#AdoptThePlanet”.

A Day of Cloud Observations

Help us achieve a surge in cloud observation data reported to the GLOBE database on Earth Day! Use the GLOBE Observer App or GLOBE's enhanced Cloud Protocol to observe the clouds. (U.S. GLOBE partners and teachers: for Earth Day 2017, almost 100 libraries across the U.S. have registered to do Earth Day programs related to weather and clouds using the GLOBE Observer App. This event is part of the NASA@ My Library project led by the Space Sciences Institute, a part of the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative along with IGES and the GLOBE Implementation Office. Click here for the latest list of registered libraries. Click here to learn more about the NASA @My Library Earth Day collaboration using GLOBE Observer, including resources to support library programs.)

Adopt the Planet

NASA has invited people around the world to help celebrate Earth Day 2017 by "adopting" one of 64,000 individual pieces of Earth as seen from space. NASA continually looks outward to find and learn about planets in our solar system and beyond, but no planet is better studied than the one we actually live on. NASA’s fleet of 18 Earth science missions in space, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person around the world. Visit go.nasa.gov/adopt to adopt your piece of the planet and explore a corner of the world.

#AdoptThePlanet logo Once you’ve adopted your piece, you can explore an interactive world map and print certificates from other locations like your hometown or favorite vacation spot. You can also take a deep dive into the data of any place on Earth by following a link to NASA's Worldview website. (In Worldview you will be able to view images that highlight the amount of vegetation on land or view air quality measurements. You can see how far air pollution and soot from fires or volcanoes have traveled from land to the ocean or how much sea ice is present in the Arctic and Antarctic. Most imagery is available within a few hours of satellites passing overhead. In addition, you can see how your piece of Earth has changed through time, as many data products span almost 30 years. These are the same data sets scientists use to study our changing planet.) To adopt your piece of Earth, visit: go.nasa.gov/adopt. To explore Earth as it is right now, visit: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov. To learn more about NASA Earth Science, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/earth. And be sure to share your adopted piece on social media with the hashtag #AdoptThePlanet. (Credit: NASA; Source: https://go.nasa.gov/2nIQv8b)