Our Home Sweet Homeworld
Our home is a terrestrial planet that’s mostly covered by liquid water, unlike our neighboring planets. Earth is affected by the influences of the Moon, Sun, solar wind, meteoroids, asteroids, and its own inhabitants: us.
With its vast oceans, active geology, dynamic atmosphere, and protective magnetic field, Earth has been a relatively safe (and so far the only known) haven for life to evolve and diversify. APL is dedicated to providing the science needed to keep it that way. Through instruments that track clouds and air pollutants, as well as space missions to understand the interaction of the Sun’s solar wind with, and dynamics within, Earth’s magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, APL is providing the tools and insight needed to help preserve the diversity of Earth’s life while helping to forecast space weather, which can disrupt our technology, and better understand the near-Earth space environment.
