This Earth Day, you’ll be able to show our planet you care by adopting a piece of it.
In honor of the upcoming holiday, NASA broke up our planet into 64,000 virtual pieces now available for “adoption.”
Enter your name into the “Adopt The Planet” website and you’ll be randomly assigned a free, 55-mile-wide corner of the world. (Be prepared that with more than 70 percent of the world covered in water, you’re most likely to get a random spot in the middle of the Pacific.)
You’ll get a certificate with your name, adoption date, ID number and the coordinates of your new adoptee. Explore further and you’ll be rewarded with a “view of the planet in a light you’ve never seen before” according to NASA’s press release.
If you’re bored of your own piece of the Earth, you can explore the remaining 63,999 pieces on NASA’s Worldview website – everywhere from the jungles of Indonesia to the town you grew up in. The images and data were collected from NASA’s 18 current Earth science missions.
NASA makes clear that, similar to adopting a star or a highway, this does not grant you any legal rights or ownership over the assigned section of land or ocean.
More than 20,000 corners of the world have been adopted so far. NASA hopes all 64,000 pieces will be adopted by Earth Day on April 22.