You know, NASA really was set up to look outwards, but also to look inwards from the outside.

The original speech that John Hedy gave where he set that target to get to the moon in a decade.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things.

Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Because that goal...

The next bit of that speech was we're going to start having weather observing satellites to keep track of what's going on.

Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course.

Tyrus satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms,

and we'll do the same for forest fires and icebergs.

It's really part and parcel of the same spirit of exploration, of understanding, of data gathering.

Our role as scientists is to help society see what those problems are likely to be, how they're going to manifest and how many we should solve them.

When you have that view from science, how they're going to manifest and how maybe we should solve them.

When you have that view from space, you see things differently. This is NASA's curious universe.

Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

I'm Patty Boyd, and in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide.

NASA might be best known for the work we do in space,

but there's a lot here on our home planet we study every day,

from increased hurricane intensities and longer fire seasons

to changes in migration patterns and growing season.

Climate change is impacting the way our Earth functions as an interconnected system.

Today, we're going to explore how NASA scientists are tracking and predicting the changes in our oceans.

Hi, my name is Gavishmet. I'm the director of Goddard's Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

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