Happy #EarthDay to everyone on our Blue Marble! 🌎 Water covers about 71% of our planet, and that precious resource is one of the main reasons why Earth is like no other planet we’ve found in this solar system, or beyond. 💧 @nasa has been studying our seas for decades, trying to learn more about Earth’s ocean and how it helps regulate our planet’s climate. #Earth #NASA #Ocean #Climate #EarthDay2024 #BlueMarble #Water #EarthDay Video description: :00 Clips of Earth from the International Space Station, ocean waves, a building with the NASA logo on it, a rocket ship on the launch pad at night, and Earth’s limb from space. :10 Fast-paced montage of old footage of satellites and satellite views of Earth. Text reads: SEASAT (1978) One of the earliest Earth-observing satellites. :12 Colorful ocean data. “TOPEX/Poseidon (1992) Measuring ocean surface topography.” :15 Engineers in a clean room working on a satellite and more ocean data. “SeaWiFS (1997) Sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor.” :18 Shots of boats at sea, a person pointing at a diagram, and Earth’s ocean from space,. “NAAMES (2015) North Atlantic aerosols and marine ecosystem study.” :21 A computer with data, looking at ocean and mountains out of a plane, a person holding a tube, Earth from space. “OMG (2016) Oceans melting Greenland.” :23 Engineers working on satellites and views of Earth from space,. “Sentinel-6 (2020) measuring ocean height.” :24 “SWOT (2022) Surface water and ocean topography.” :25 Clips of Earth’s oceans set to the beat of the music. :30 A satellite being built and then launching, followed by data visualizations. “PACE (2024) Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem.” :42 More clips of boats and scientists working on research boats. :44 The montage ends on old footage of a blue and white Earth as seen from the lunar surface. Text says “Astronaut Bill Anders. Apollo 8 (1968). :50 A timelapse of Earth’s limb at night as seen from the International Space Station. Cut to black, then the NASA logo.