NASA is letting you adopt a piece of Earth

In a bid to get humans to take ownership of their planet, this Earth Day NASA will let you adopt a piece of Earth.

The space agency is putting Earth up for adoption. Your little slice of Earth would be an average 55 miles wide. All you have to do is type your name into the site and click 'Adopt!' Your certificate is generated along with environmental details of your piece of Earth.

Here’s a sample of the certificate you’ll receive when you adopt a piece of Earth. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB

According to NASA, this is what you get in return: "Adopt a piece of Earth as seen from space. Your personalised adoption certificate will feature data from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites for a randomly assigned location. Print it and share it, then explore other locations with our interactive map and get even more Earth science data from NASA’s Worldview website."



Keep in mind, you don't actually 'own' the piece of Earth property - there are no legal or ownership rights to the programme. NASA wants to use this scheme to make people aware of what is going on in their piece of real estate and have them share this information further.

“With this year’s Adopt The Planet Earth Day activity, we’re really focused on terrestrial adopters and sharing with our fellow inhabitants some of the wealth of NASA data we have freely available about our great Blue Marble,”said Stephen E Cole, of NASA’s Earth Science Communications while speaking to The Huffington Post.

 


This story originally appeared on The Huffington Post