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.