NASA | Taking Earth's Temperature

The video explores Earth's unique climate and the tools NASA uses to study it. It highlights the role of models in understanding Earth's systems, focusing on James Hansen's early climate models that revealed human activities' impact on climate change. The video discusses the challenges of climate modeling due to Earth's complex systems and introduces NASA's Glory mission, which aims to enhance climate model accuracy by measuring solar irradiance and atmospheric aerosols.

What challenges do scientists face when modeling Earth's complex systems?

What is the purpose of NASA's upcoming Glory mission?