Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of the Planet (documentary film)

Presented by:

Films and Science & Land

Date: May 9, 2024

Time: 7:00 PM Utah Time - 7:45 PM Utah Time

Our planet is a beautiful and awesome place. In a new video, join NASA scientists on a 40-minute visual tour of Earth from space, originally presented in the IMAX theater at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. This presentation was the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's fifteenth installment of an annual lecture series and reception sponsored by the Maryland Space Business Roundtable.

Earth is a complex, dynamic system we do not yet fully understand. Like the human body, the Earth system comprises diverse components that interact in complex ways. On this global tour, scientists lead the viewer through Earth’s water cycle, forests, and frozen regions, as seen through the eyes of NASA’s fleet of Earth observing satellites.

NASA's Earth science program aims to develop a greater understanding of Earth's system and its response to both natural and human-induced changes to improve predictions of climate, weather and natural disasters.

Introduction - Lennard Fisk, Ph.D, Distinguished University Professor of Space Science, University of Michigan

The Water Cycle - Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Ph.D, Project Scientist for the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Sea Ice - Thorsten Markus, Ph.D, Project Scientist for Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Land and Earth - Lola Fatoyinbo-Agueh, Ph.D, Principal Investigator, (Eco-Synthetic Aperture Radar) (EcoSAR), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

The Big Picture - Piers Sellers, Deputy Director, Science and Exploration Directorate, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Location: Kanab City Library, Multipurpose Room. 374 N Main St, Kanab, UT 84741

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