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[b]NASA Celebrates Earth Day with "Global Selfie"[/b] For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing missions will be launched into space in a single year. To celebrate this milestone, NASA is inviting people all around the world to step outside on [URL=http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/]Earth Day, April 22[/URL], take a "selfie," and share it with the world on social media. Designed to encourage environmental awareness and recognize the agency's ongoing work to protect our home planet, [URL=http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/globalselfie/]NASA's "Global Selfie" event[/URL] asks people everywhere to take a picture of themselves in their local environment. On Earth Day, NASA will monitor photos posted to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and Flickr. Photos posted to Twitter, Instagram or Google+ using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie, or to the #GlobalSelfie Facebook event page and the #GlobalSelfie Flickr group will be used to create a crowd-sourced mosaic image of Earth – a new "Blue Marble" built bit-by-bit with #GlobalSelfie photos. NASA's 17 Earth science missions now in orbit help scientists piece together a detailed "global selfie" of our planet day after day. Insights from these space-based views help answer some of the critical challenges facing our planet today and in the future: climate change, sea level rise, freshwater resources, and extreme weather events. NASA Earth research also yields many down-to-earth benefits, such as improved environmental prediction and natural hazard and climate change preparedness. [URL=http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/globalselfie/]Click here for more[/URL] about getting involved in the #GlobalSelfie.
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