NASA Invites You to 'Picture Earth' for Earth Day
Our magnificent planet is always ready for its close-up. For Earth Day, NASA wants to see your take.
Our magnificent
planet is always ready for its close-up. On Earth Day, April 22, NASA wants to
see your take.NASA invites
you to celebrate the planet we call home with our #PictureEarth social media
event. Post a close-up photo on social media of your favorite natural features,
such as crashing waves, ancient trees, blooming flowers or stunning sunsets. Use
the hashtag #PictureEarth and upload the photo on April 22. Be sure to include the
location where the photo was taken in the text of your social media post.On Earth Day, we
will share some of NASA's most stunning images of Earth from space to inspire
you. We'll check Instagram, Twitter and our NASA Earth Facebook event page to
find your images and select photos from around the world to showcase later in
videos and composite images.NASA satellite
and airborne instruments picture Earth every day to increase our knowledge of
our home and improve lives. These images, shared with scientists and the public
worldwide, may use visible light, like a photographer's camera, or peer into
infrared, microwave and radio wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes.Scientists use
data from all of our instruments, and from Earth-observing spacecraft from
other nations, to build a picture of the planet that grows more and more
complete over time. On April 26, our next addition to our Earth-observing
fleet, theOrbiting
Carbon Observatory 3, is set to launch to the International Space
Station. The new knowledge made possible by this fleet helps create solutions
to important global issues such as changing freshwater availability, food
security and human health.For more
information about NASA's #PictureEarth, visit:https://www.nasa.gov/earth/picture-earth-for-earth-day-2019orhttps://www.nasa.gov/earth/retrata-la-tierra-para-el-d-a-de-la-tierra-2019For more information about NASA's Earth science programs,
visit:https://www.nasa.gov/earth