NASA's New 'Earth Now' App: Your World, Unplugged

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Internet advisory: 2012-080 March 19, 2012

NASA's New 'Earth Now' App: Your World, Unplugged

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A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your
hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-
time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satellites.

Available at the iTunes Store or by visiting http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps , Earth Now
displays data on many of the key vital signs of our planet that NASA satellites track.
Whether your interest is current surface air temperatures over Australia, carbon dioxide
or carbon monoxide levels over Canada, ozone over Oman, water vapor over Wales,
gravity anomalies in Greenland or sea level height anomalies at St. Petersburg, Earth
Now brings a world of ever-changing climate data to your fingertips.

The regularly updated data are displayed as color maps projected over a 3D 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. Helpful descriptions provide background information on each
data set.

"Earth Now is a great resource for students, teachers and anyone interested in Earth's
changing climate," said Michael Greene, manager for public engagement formulation and
strategic alliances at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Since its debut
last month, it's already been downloaded nearly 170,000 times. Plans are in place for
development of an Android version and for the addition of new NASA Earth science data
sets over time."

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 how NASA studies it. The app was developed by the Earth
Science Communications, Visualization Technology Applications and Development
Teams at JPL, with support from NASA Headquarters.

For more on NASA's Earth Science Program, visit: http://www.nasa.gov. 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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