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(Howling wind, chimes, and music)

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NPPy: Mom, didn't there use to be more ice?

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NPPy's Mom: There was more, yes.

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(howling wind, and music)

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NPPy: We've been walking for hours. 
Mom, aren't you hungry?

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NPPy's Mom: I am.

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NPPy: Mom check it out it's NPP.

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NPPy's Mom: Well, just do it over there.

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NPPy: No Mom, I mean it's a satellite called NPP
and it's flown past us 3 times today.

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NPPy's Mom: Mmhm, can we please keep moving?

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NPPy: No, it's one of NASA's satellites Mom. 
(voice fades out)

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(howling wind, and music)

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NPPy: So NPP basically checks the health of the Earth from Space. So cool.

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That's 5 instruments to help us make 
better weather predictions and even

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see what's going on with the climate.

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You hear a lot about the climate changing and
how big a deal it is for everyone.

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But it's hard to really get what that means until you start to see changes at home.

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For my Mom and me, it's when our ice goes away.

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Might not mean a ton to you, but for us, 
it's how we find our food. It's our home.

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So how do we know if Earth is healthy or not? We need to look at it from outer space, using satellites like NPP.

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NPP has different sensors that look at different 
parts of the Earth's environment.

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Including the land, sky and water. Each sensor takes it's own look at what's happening and beams it down to us

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every time NPP flies over.

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That'll show us what's happening right now to the sea ice, ocean temperatures, humidity, clouds and other

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things on the Earth, our home.

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And when we look at all these things together, 
it can tell us how our Earth is doing.

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And we can even compare them to stuff we've done in the past to see how everything is changing.

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The coolest thing is NPP will help predict 
the way things could change in the future.

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And that will help us figure out what we need to do now.

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NPPy's Mom: NPPy come on. Let's go.

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NPPy: OK Mom. Gotta go, see you later.

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Mom, wait up. Don't go so fast, it's icy.

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(music)

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http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov

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(beep, beep)