Earth is a complex, dynamic system. To learn more about it, NASA, as the space agency, was tasked with launching the first weather satellite back in 1960. Today, NASA uses satellites, aircraft and even an occasional boat to study our planet's air, land and water. It's called "Earth System Science" and we are trying to answer some big questions: How is the global Earth system changing? What causes these changes? How will Earth change in the future? And what we learn benefits society through appli

Explore an interactive visualization showing Earth's changing climate in recent history: https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine. | NASA Climate Change