The 19 Small Ways That NASA Will Try To Save The Earth
There are a slew of Earth Science missions that NASA has planned for the future. We need all of them (and more) for a thriving planet.
When most people think of NASA, they think about space and the Universe beyond our world. NASA conjures up images of humans in space, on the Moon, or in rockets. From a science perspective, we think about the stars, nebulae and galaxies out there in the distant Universe, and the planets in our solar system and beyond. But NASA has four main science goals: Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Heliophysics, and Earth Science. As Earth Day approaches, it’s this last one — Earth Science — that deserves to be highlighted. From space, we can view our planet and its properties in ways we simply cannot achieve from the ground. The challenges we face on our world, from the natural to the human-created ones, require us to understand what’s happening, when, and by how much. NASA, and the Earth Science research it performs, is vital to humans successfully navigating and overcoming the weather-and-climate trials facing us, now and in the future.
