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earth day is approaching on sunday april

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ready to celebrate that day

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we have here today as a special guest we

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have dr cindy evans who is a uh

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the earth observation scientist i think

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your appropriate title is associate

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space station scientist for earth

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observations correct something like that

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it's a space station associate program

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scientist for earth observation thank

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you so much for coming today and i can

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see you may not be able to see this on

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camera but she has earth earrings on and

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i like that that's very nice

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so um first of all let's just talk about

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some of the things that are going first

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actually before i even get into earth

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observations let's talk about you so

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tell me how did you become an earth

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observation scientist

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well i'm a geologist that my training is

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in geology and like many geologists went

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to school and started taking all sorts

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of sciences chemistry physics math and

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none of them quite fit and i think the

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beauty of geology and earth science is

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that it takes all of those sciences and

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brings them together

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we do a lot of field work and it's

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really fun to be outside and observe the

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earth firsthand

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very interesting and so when was it that

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you came to nasa and how did you come

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about getting here

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okay i've been at nasa now since 1980

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and so a long time and of course my

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initial interest in nasa uh well i had

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remember seeing the apollo missions but

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i did apply to be an astronaut like many

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people here and and so i had interest in

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pursuing

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some uh way to support the space program

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and ended up here working with the earth

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observations program for many years

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great and you do

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definitely do a good job i'm sure of

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supporting the space program and being

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here since 1989 that's a that's a long

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time so i know that you're very well

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versed on what is going on on on some of

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those earth observation there are

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many different studies and we're going

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to get into some of those the first one

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i want to go ahead and just talk first

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about one of the newest studies that is

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called i serve

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and i understand it's the study natural

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disasters and climate change and that

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sort of thing you want to talk to me

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about that right and and and

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stepping back a little bit there's kind

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of three things about the space station

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that are really nice um synergies with

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earth day number one is that the space

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station itself as a platform is coming

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into its own as an earth observing

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platform and we have experiments right

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now on the outside of the space station

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and on inside of the space station

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collecting data every single day and the

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newest payload that will be launched at

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earth day is that it supports this

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legacy program called crew earth

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observations so the crew was really

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invested in observing the earth and then

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the third thing is that the space

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station is participating and all the

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international partners are participating

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in this program called iss benefits

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humanity

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and earth observations is one of the

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three nodes of the iss benefits humanity

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and it we're working with the united

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nations on this as well and the earth

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observations participation is specific

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to collecting data that may be useful

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for disaster response recognizing that

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the space station may be in the right

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place at the right time to take some

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observations that may be useful for

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first responders or even just

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communicating anything that's happening

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so um so our newest payload which is

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helping build the space station as an

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earth observing platform is going to be

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iserv and it specific purpose is to

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collect data for humanitarian purposes

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and it's it's a high resolution imager

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wharf which is the window observational

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research facility which is the rack that

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sits right in front of the destiny's

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earth so it'll have the bird's eye view

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of the earth it's a high resolution

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camera and it ties into this program

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marshall space flight center which is a

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collaboration between nasa and u.s

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agency for international developer or

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to provide remote sensing data to

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developing nations around the world that

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a variety of purposes wow so um and i

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cargo ship and it is scheduled to be

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cargo ship and when exactly will the

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particular payload begin

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for the i serve to come online okay and

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be the crew members who are scheduled to

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station there will be some

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equipment or is it a

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colleagues at marshall are putting

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together the the training materials so

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instrument and to

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what they're looking for on the surface

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of the earth i don't know if you want to

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talk about that we can talk about that

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sure okay so so that's in the other part

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involved in looking at the earth and

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knowing what they're seeing and so we do

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train them to understand the basic earth

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processes and also understand something

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about the dynamicism of the earth the um

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is comes to us from

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they study i guess they don't just

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that a little bit um yeah so so that the

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crew members they study specifically

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human impacts on the surface of the

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earth that they might be able to observe

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kinds of infrastructures can be observed

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events and the impacts of those dynamic

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storm systems or after floods and so

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that they know how to most appropriately

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capture the kinds of data that we

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the capital cities collection do you

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united states for example where we use

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exotic materials and so so we describe

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lake victoria and this is one of the

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areas that has the fastest growing

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becoming quick rapidly populated are you

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having this long-standing program which

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asking the crew members to um look at

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today is a dynamic event it's a dust

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dust storms it was introduced into the

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and these dust storms can be huge and

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miles and so it's a pretty spectacular

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viewing these types of uh is this again

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a spring or a fall kind of phenomenon so

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being able to understand where the dust

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storms you know where the source of the

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over the city of riyadh for example is

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it going to impact people on the surface

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of the earth and just kind of

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understanding the basic dynamics of

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these kinds of features because dynamic

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events are harder to capture from the

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city that we're asking the crew members

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to collect is damascus the capital of

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syria of course syria's been in the news

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but again it's a city

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in an area that has rapid population

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growth and so we are asking the crew

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members to take a photograph of the

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okay great so share with me real quick

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what um any views that you have seen

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what are your favorites that you've seen

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one of my very favorite views

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as a geologist i like volcanoes and i

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love volcanic eruptions and so we've the

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crew members have actually sometimes

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been the first to observe eruptions and

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in particular one of the most

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spectacular images that was first

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collected on the space station uh back

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in iss 5 as a as a view of mount aetna

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with a huge eruption plume over the top

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volcano that's near mexico city is

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beginning to show signs of unrest and so

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pictures are the pictures of volcanoes

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erupting so i bet you're getting ready

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to see that other photo of the

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of another volcano active that's right

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if if the space station orbits um allow

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the crew members to look at that great

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well and so these images are very very

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popular among the the public and uh

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a whole website that a repository if you

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will of these images that we're taking

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and um the public can go and look at

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nasa is has put together an earth day

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www.nasa.gov

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on that we have a list of the top 10

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requested images as well as the top 10

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most downloaded images from that

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particular website the top 10 most

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requested images i actually am wearing a

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shirt with one of the photos it's the

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number one photo it's the apollo 17

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but we are conducting a twitter poll for

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the public so you can get your vote in

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go to that website and vote for your

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favorite of the top ten again you can go

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to that at www.nasa.gov

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and we really appreciate your time do

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you have any other

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things to you want to share with us

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about what's going on as far as you know

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how we are helping or how iss is

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with earth day and and

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giving back to the earth

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well the crew members of course are

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tuned in and you've already seen some

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some really spectacular images

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especially one of the new the new

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modes of imagery is taking time lapse

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images at night time to show what the

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earth looks like at night and that's

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actually a very unique contribution that

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the space station astronauts can make so

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um so they're excited to participate in

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an earth day by observing the earth and

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and we have um data coming down to the

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surface of the earth every day great and

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again you can find those time lapse

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videos as well on that website correct

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eol.jse.nasa.gov thank you again for