NASA's 'Earth Now'App Now Available for Android

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Internet advisory: 2012-283 Sept. 10, 2012

NASA's 'Earth Now'App Now Available for Android

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PASADENA, Calif. -- One of the top iPhone education apps in the iTunes store is now
available for Android. The free NASA "Earth Now" Android app immerses cyber
explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's
fleet of Earth science satellites, bringing a world of ever-changing climate data to users'
fingertips.

Available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps , Earth Now displays data on many of the key
vital signs of our planet that NASA satellites track. The data, displayed on your smart
phone in 3-D, include current surface temperature, carbon dioxide levels and global sea
level.

The regularly updated data are displayed as color maps projected over a 3-D Earth model
that can be rotated by a single finger stroke, or zoomed in and out by the pinch or spread
of two fingers. Color-coded legends indicate the relative strength or weakness of
environmental conditions. Descriptions provide background information on each data set.

"Android users now have a new resource for accessing up-to-date information on Earth's
changing climate," said Michael Greene, manager, public engagement strategy at
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Since its debut in February 2012,
the iPhone version of Earth Now has been downloaded nearly 250,000 times. Additional
NASA Earth science data sets will be added in the future."

Earth Now is closely integrated with NASA's Webby Award-winning Global Climate
Change website, http://climate.nasa.gov , which is devoted to educating the public about
Earth's changing climate, providing easy-to-understand information about the causes and
effects of climate change, and information about how NASA studies it. The app was
developed by JPL's Earth Science Communications and Visualization Technology
Applications and Development Teams, with support from NASA Headquarters.

For more information on NASA's Earth Science Program, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth . For a comprehensive list of NASA apps and other
tools to connect and collaborate, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/connect .

JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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