NASA Earth Science Educational CD-Rom & Activity Booklet (Windows 95/NT)

NASA s Earth Science Enterprise Educational CD-Rom Version Three and Sealed Activity Supplement Booklet Reference NASA/NP-1999-01-005-GSFC From NASA s website: Since its inception in 1958, NASA has been studying the Earth and its changing environment by observing the atmosphere, oceans, land, ice, and snow, and their influence on weather and climate. We now understand that the key to gaining a better understanding of the global environment is exploring how the Earth's 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 a more comprehensive program to study the Earth as an integrated environmental system. They call it NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. A major component of the Earth Science Enterprise is the Earth Observing System (EOS). EOS is series of satellites to be launched over the next two decades that will be used to intensi…