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LongTomH

(8,636 posts) Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:19 PM Apr 2016

NASA Marks Earth Day With #24/7 Celebration

Join NASA for a #24Seven Celebration of Earth Day:

On April 22, NASA will post about 200 images across nearly 100 different social media channels that capture the breadth of the agency’s 24-hour-a-day work to study Earth. The images were captured during the week of March 27, but have been assembled chronologically to tell a story of a “day in the life” of NASA’s Earth science work. The time-stamped posts -- hashtagged #24Seven -- will begin publishing at 12:01 a.m. EDT and will continue throughout the day.

Share your posts on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #24Seven, or on our Facebook Event page.We know we aren’t the only people working to safeguard and understand our home planet. As you celebrate Earth Day, we’re asking you to share on social media what you’re doing to mark the day and celebrate our fragile home in space.

Share your posts on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #24Seven, or on our Facebook Event page.

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How can I take part?

Millions of people will take time out of their day this April 22 to do their part to make Earth a better place. Others will mark the day by spending it outside, celebrating the beauty, ruggedness and life-giving elements that make Earth our home in the solar system.

Take a picture or a short video of whatever Earth-focused activity you are doing on Earth Day and post it on social media with the hashtag #24Seven. Pictures and videos can be posted to Twitter, Instagram and to the official NASA Facebook Event page.

Begin posting at 6 a.m. EDT on April 21 – which marks the beginning of Earth Day on the international date line at Samoa and Christmas Island, Kiribati – and continue posting until 8 a.m. EDT on April 23, which marks the end of Earth Day on the other side of the international date line at Baker Island.

Some of the first images from NASA's 24/Seven Earth Day Celebration:

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How can anybody not fund NASA? longship Apr 2016 #1

longship

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1. How can anybody not fund NASA?

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Fri Apr 22, 2016, 02:33 PM

Apr 2016

If anybody even considers what NASA has done with their ever dwindling budget over the decades, let's start with Apollo and its numerous paybacks. However, what NASA has accomplished through the many decades of my life also includes the last Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission where NASA actually had to have a backup Space Shuttle on the launch pad to justify the risk.

All this with dwindling funding!

And then there's Cassini at Saturn, New Horizons going past Pluto, Juno at Jupiter, the multitude of Mars orbiters, mapping Mercury, and then the awesome Voyager missions which are still going, and still sending data from the edges of our solar system from a time that I was an undergraduate physics student.

How can one argue to not fund such a great enterprise?

Then, there's the NASA Terran research on global climate change, which is what congressional opposition to NASA is all about.

Those poor rubes. They will be the end of us all.

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