Earth-Now Reviews

This delightful App comes from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the credible California based science institution, CalTech. In partnership with NASA, EarthNow streams live data from a dozen orbiting satellites to give the curious minded visual representations of temperature, water moisture, carbon dioxide, and more.
Perfectly integrates with many NGSS standards from early elementary through secondary school.

Very good app, hope you just move loading strip from the center of the screen, it annoying during low internet speed, tanks

I hope they continue to update and add more content and info as they are able to.

I am doing a project on climate change and this definitely gave me a better picture in my brain although it does need an update because it totally blocked out Antarctica still try it, it’s really handy

It’s amazing the data and information that NASA is able to share through EarthNow! Love it!

This is a well designed app that will truly open our eyes to incoming data from these unique satellites which as a result, we will have a better understanding of our climate and how it evolves, especially with our industrial revolution! A big thanks to NASA JPL for their hard work, since it takes tremendous amount of effort to actually "squeeze" and translate all these data, in order for us to have a 24hour view of our Atmosphere! God bless all those who made it possible!

This is a pretty cool app with lots of info to display, could use some work updating the UI a little, especially for new notch phones.

What is the big deal with this people?

South pole is covered with a black circle, useless

EarthNow is designed to display several data maps gathered via satellite.

These data maps include everything from ozone, carbon dioxide & monoxide levels, to gravity field variations.

Animated data maps can also be displayed, showing changes over time.

All of these maps are rendered in false color tones projected onto a globe. The globe can be rotated but is locked at the poles; you can't turn the whole geoid upside down.

Zooming in and out via multi-touch is very rough, in direct contrast to the silky smooth scrolling iOS and Apple devices are known for. I hope this improves as EarthNow is updated.

Otherwise though, the datasets load very quickly and a details screen can be selected that describes the scale used for the map, the data's importance, and the source of the data.

Improvements I hope to see are:

*Much smoother scrolling, the kind Apple is legendary for

*A higher-resolution globe; the current globe is passable, but pixelated on the Retina Displays, and won't look very good on an iPad

*The ability to control the playback speed of animated data maps, and the ability to scroll through them manually, to see change over time in a specific area of interest, for example

*Additional information on the importance of the displayed data. Many people people (like me) are voracious readers and would love to learn more about the data we're examining

Thanks!

I too am looking forward to additional data layers that I know NASA has (e.g. SST), but I think this is a great app. I wish there was an iPad version, but this is a great start. For those who aren't sure what they are looking at, just press the Details button and it will tell you a bit about what the data is and how it is measured. For example, reading the details about the GRACE data (gravity field) is very interesting. I too would have thought the changes were slower, but there are some pretty significant changes in the past couple of years.

Thanks JPL.

(iPad version, please!)

If you're interested in weather science at all, this is a must app to get! It gathers data from official sources and makes it relatively easy for the novice to understand, as well as being very cool to use in my opinion.

The data shown gives you an interesting view, as well as an idea of what humankind's impact is on the rest of the globe is.....

Any weather science geek will find EarthNow fun & worth checking out!

I love EarthNow and it visualizes the information beautifully. However two things. Doesn't the ocean level seem a bit pointless unless it was a long term time lapse? Because due to the fact that the ocean is water, there wont be places that radically change in water level from others.( Correct me if I am wrong though) Also, if EarthNow couldbe integrated with Google Earth that would be fantastic, because the information could reach more people in a easy fashion.

I'd say this is right up there with EarthNow that lets you track visible constellations based on your location. Not especially useful every day, but definitely fun to play with.

EarthNow is pretty self-explanatory (not sure why someone was confused in their review about the satellites orbiting the planet...), and pretty cool to show off. Even more impressive when you consider the data is petty much real-time.

As a species, it is important to perceive spectrums broader than ourselves. I took the time to appreciate what is represented here. I'll thank anyone who can present this much information with the feeling a small Earth has been put in a replicator and downloaded from EarthNow store. Thanks JPL, never disappointed when I see something with your logo on it.

Cool app but the data is 2 years old it's nice to see how were impacting this planet but the data could be more in present day to see tho hole in the ozone it's no wonder the planets fighting back makes you wonder how bad the skin cancer rate will climb if we keep feeding on petroleum were smarter that this yet we choose to destroy the very Earth we live on where else is there to go? I think we should keep this one. At least till the little green aliens show us a better way.....ZOLTAN !!!!

I can see a lot coming from EarthNow if it is continually updated. Nice work putting it together!

Would be neat if we could have more control over the timelines (date periods) for the animations.

This is a great way to visualize info about our planet and to gain a better understanding of what each gas/ chemical has on it.

This works fine on 4s. It has a lot of options showing the state of our home, more acutely, what pollution has done. It is put out by NASA so I would like to think it is up to date. If not, then my 5 stars has become meaningless. Otherwise it is great, would be nice if you could zoom. Thank you

Provide good visualization of a great deal of data with the ability to switch between collections quickly for comparison. I hope over time even more visualizations of data will be added such as ocean current direction and velocity as well as features like animate over time, higher definition zoom, and selectable dates.

While the interface still needs a little work, overall this is one seriously cool application. I've lost several hours playing with it, and I've learned a few things in the process. Being able to view maps over time is exceptionally cool.

User friendly, although I'm. It sure most of us would find a daily use for EarthNow. Saying that, I spent twenty minutes just scrolling through the screens and selecting the individual satellites. Beautiful and deceptively entertaining. I think I am enjoying it more than I should, but the graphics are mesmerizing!

Why is most of east Africa and most of Middle East blacked out on the satellite maps????