How Astronauts Celebrate Earth Day 2016 Through Social Media

First Posted: Apr 24, 2016 07:31 PM EDT
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Earth Day has been celebrated since 1970. It aims to encourage people to be more environmentally friendly. Most people all around the world support Earth Day, including celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Miley Cyrus and Emma Watson. Besides this host of celebrities, people who study the outer space would not miss celebrating the planet Earth. These are the fearless astronauts.

This Earth Day 2016, the current and former astronauts celebrated the planet earth via social media. There were many images taken from space shared through Twitter and other social networks. Get a glimpse of them and be amazed of how beautiful the planet earth is.


Mike Massimino also tweeted an encouraging message to all people. "Earth is beautiful, awe-inspiring and our home. Let's respect and protect it."

Telegraph stated five facts about the Earth Day. First, there were 20 million people who participated the first Earth day in 1970. Second, in 2008, Disney introduced the Disneynature, which is a channel dedicated to environmental documentaries, prior to celebrating Earth Day. Third, the organizers cannot remember the name or date for the day came from. Fourth, it is foretold that there were 1 billion people all around the world involved with Earth day 2016. Fifth, Earth Day 2016 has its own flag that features a photo of the planet Earth taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon.

Meanwhile, the CNN states the reasons why the planet earth is not really doomed. On April 22, 2016, the world leaders of 175 countries signed the Paris agreement on climate change. Their objective is to fight the warming of the planet Earth.

Solar energy is used by many countries nowadays, which stops people from using the dirty fuels such as natural gas, coal and oil, which damage the planet. Electrical cars are also invented and becoming popular. The invention may lead to the eradication of the emissions.

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