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NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency | NASA's charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
To meet this mandate, NASA has typically spent about 10 percent of its budget annually on Earth science, including key missions to observe the planet's atmosphere, monitor weather, study land use changes, and more. Garver added that surveys repeatedly indicate that the public would increase prioritization of NASA’s research in Earth and climate science above other areas, which currently receive significantly more funding at the space agency. Garver is referring to polls by Gallup, the Pew Research Center, and other organizations that have repeatedly found that the public's top two priorities for NASA are monitoring asteroids that could potentially strike Earth and studying and understanding our planet's climate.
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