About: Main Messages

As established by the E&PO Committee, all of the ESD's programs, products, and partnerships should contain one or more of the following points in their main messages:

NASA conducts Earth system science

• The Earth is a dynamic, interconnected system
• NASA produces new insights into our changing planet
• Earth science is important and useful for our future
• Earth science improves quality of life
• Earth science is a dynamic profession, done by real people
• Earth science is a viable career path
• NASA supports Earth system science education (formal & informal)

NASA collects and shares unique data sets

• NASA observes the whole globe and global changes from the unique perspective of space
• To understand global change, we need NASA's ability to provide a global perspective
• There are limits to our natural resources that we are able to observe

NASA drives new technology development

• NASA technologies are essential to observing & understanding changes in the Earth's climate system
• NASA provides state-of-the-art new remote sensors
• NASA observes the whole globe and global changes from the unique perspective of outer space
• To understand global change we need NASA's ability to provide a global perspective
• NASA also observes and measures the Earth's environment using aircraft-based and surface-based instruments as well