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Our mission to planet earth: a guide to teaching earth system science
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | Volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, and El Nino are naturally occurring events over which humans have no control. But can human activities cause additional environmental change? Can scientists predict the global impacts of increased levels of pollutants in the atmosphere? Will the planet warm because increased levels of greenhouse gases, produced by the burning of fossil fuels, trap heat and prevent it from being radiated back into space? Will the polar ice cap melt, causing massive coastal flooding? Have humans initiated wholesale climatic change? These are difficult questions, with grave implications. Predicting global change and understanding the relationships among earth's components have increased in priority for the nation. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), along with many other government agencies, has initiated long-term studies of earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land masses using observations from satellite, balloon, and aircraft-borne instruments. NASA calls its research program Mission to Planet Earth. Because NASA can place scientific instruments far above earth's surface, the program allows scientists to explore earth's components and their interactions on a global scale. |
| File Size | 1615875 |
| Page Count | 44 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19950007237 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0qr9r641 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Mission To Planet Earth Climate Change Earth Atmosphere Greenhouse Effect Oceans Education Earth Observations From Space Earth Sciences Air Pollution Nasa Space Programs Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
