Labels:bulletin board | earth | grass | lodestone | person | reckoner | sky OCR: ince its creation in 1958, NASA has been studying the Earth and its changing environment by observing the atmosp here, oceans, land, ice, and snow, and their influence on weather and climate. We now understand that the key to gaining better understanding of the global environment 1s exploring how the Earth systems of air land, water, and life interact with each other. This approach called Earth Systems Science -blends together fields like meteorology, oceanography, geology, and biology. In 1991 NASA launched more comprehensive program to study the Earth as an integrated environmental system. Known as the Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) its goals are to expand scientific knowl ledge of the Earth system by using NASA's unique vantage points of space, aircraft, and in situ platforms; creating ...
