30, 20 and 10 Years Ago in OPN

“In the early 1980s, NASA began planning the Earth Observing System (EOS), the primary initiative in its Mission to Planet Earth to provide scientists with the tools needed to meet the goals set forth by the USGCRP [US Global Change Research Program] and IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]—to develop a better understanding of our planet with which to assist policymakers worldwide to protect and manage our environment and natural resources … The first EOS spacecraft, EOS AM-1, will launch in 1998. ... Overall, the EOS Program will provide a 15-year global dataset of many atmospheric, terrestrial, and oceanic properties.”