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NASA's Curious Universe

Welcome to Earth

NASA's Curious Universe

Katie Konans

Science

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information about our home in ways nobody else can. In this podcast miniseries, celebrate our home planet by learning how NASA studies Earth—including unique views of ocean color and sea level, land data that help farmers improve crop production, and researching our atmosphere from the air we breathe to layers high above us that protect every living thing on the planet.

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0:00.0

Here at NASA, we've landed on the moon.

0:05.0

That's one small step for man.

0:08.0

We've driven robots across Martian craters.

0:11.0

That's on confirmed.

0:13.0

Perseveris safely on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking the sand of past life.

0:20.0

And we've peered into the depths of time and space.

0:23.9

Declage liftoff from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself.

0:28.8

James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe.

0:32.8

But you don't have to look far to find an amazing, mysterious place.

0:37.0

That's why we also study Earth.

0:39.3

Well, there's a lot that we don't understand about our home planet.

0:44.3

We understand, I would argue, more about the surface of the moon than we understand about how our oceans work.

0:50.3

I'm Jacob Pinter.

0:52.3

Over billions of years, this average rocky planet developed a breathable

0:56.9

atmosphere and oceans. And unlike any other planet we know of, life sprung up here. I'm Patty Boyd.

1:05.0

From the vantage point of space, our Earth is a fragile blue marble, a place worth understanding

1:10.7

and protecting.

1:11.6

When an astronaut gets to space outside of our atmosphere, and they look around.

1:17.6

First of all, the view never gets old.

1:20.6

It looks cold and deep and dark.

1:23.6

And the Earth...

1:25.6

This is our one little planet that all of us are living on

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