JPL and the Space Age: Sky High

Think "NASA," and what comes to mind? Astronauts? Mars rovers? Voyager and the Golden Record? How about Earth?

In fact, NASA has been studying and monitoring the health of our home planet for decades, using balloons, aircraft, satellites, and even the International Space Station in the effort.

“Sky High,” the 16th documentary in the series “JPL and the Space Age,” traces the efforts of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to measure greenhouse gases, from the pathfinding science instrument AIRS, through to today’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 aboard the space station.

Documentary length: 60 minutes

[shrutikamahandule]

Thanks JPL for the information . Keep giving like this new information to us

[REAR_rockets]

This whole series is really well done. Keep up the good work, JPL!

[pcz]

Carl Sagan. Legend. I love hearing him explain his thoughts.

[TaoWangJPL]

So proud to say that I work at the JPL AIRS group.

[mgrth]

Thank you for being so honest. In a day and age where there is so much bravado, it has really helped to watch these honest, humbling accounts of all the failures and mistakes that went into making impressive accomplishments. Thank you.

[wizzardofpaws]

When I was a little kid, I lived in FL. We would get out of school and go to the playground to watch all the rockets go up. I remember clearly seeing John Glenn's rocket go up.It was so exciting.

[chiluco]

The words of Carl Sagan summarize it perfectly.
Even despite our best efforts it might not be enough.
Our best chance is to act fast and maybe the use of technology that might not have been invented yet.

[jorymil]

Seems like if you falsify your test results and a $250 million project fails, you should foot the entire bill for the failed launches and/or be put out of business.

[CarlosSilva-tdnn]

So very inspiring to see a generation of humans dedicated to better undertand life as we know it. Such a glorious gift! Thank you ever so

[ariahaneul]

I really love this JPL produced content (even that retro one from the 1960s with Carl Sagan was cool!). I hope you guys continue releasing this content on YouTube, the platform is better for it. I've seen Moustafa Chahine featured in other content but hearing the story of how he started his career trajectory was great. Seeing the tributes released when he died showed me how valued and respected he was by his colleagues.

[sharonwheeler]

I cannot wait to work at NASA JPL!!! Such genius minds that I would love to be a part of

[deepquake]

What a fantastic and informative video! Cheers on the openness!

[jammesvqk]

Thanks to NVIDIA, AI, data analysis, and Quantum computing. Now we are capable of processing this such an amount of data.

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[Chazz]

What a great documentary. I have really been enjoying this series. A thought on what we can practically do now to reduce our CO2 emmisions.

While I love forests, they are no the answer to reducing CO2 levels. In fact we would need to plant 20 million trees a day to offset the United States emissions alone.

If we want change fast within our life times Nuclear is the least material, and land intensive way to do it. It is the only source of energy where we get capture all the byproducts and choose how to store them.

[timsmith]

The human species works best when we all cooperate on common goals for the betterment of all. Unfortunately, we are presently very tribal as well.

[deechristian]

How are OCO2 & 3 different from the MAIA project?

[Aszod]

Love love love how JPL shows not only their success, but their failures. They take their failures, they learn and improve on everything. Really shows what science and engineering is about. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

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[ZaomiPro]

answer to first question

definitely