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Global Selfie Earth Day

NASA’s Global Selfie was a specific Earth Day 2014 event inviting people worldwide to submit selfies for a crowdsourced Earth mosaic. The NASA evidence does not establish an annual observance named “Global Selfie Earth Day.”

Date / rule22 April 2014 (NASA Global Selfie event)
ScopeWorldwide / NASA Earth Day 2014 crowdsourced photo event
VerificationOfficial Agency Historical Event Verified
PortabilityHistorical Legacy
Evidence statusSource-backed
Last authority check2026-09-09
Target-year policyHistorical Only
Next occurrenceNot projected automatically

This record requires a current target-year source or is intentionally historical.

Authority summary

What is Global Selfie Earth Day?

NASA’s Global Selfie was a specific Earth Day 2014 event inviting people worldwide to submit selfies for a crowdsourced Earth mosaic. The NASA evidence does not establish an annual observance named “Global Selfie Earth Day.”

Date and recurrence

22 April 2014 (NASA Global Selfie event)

This is retained as historical or legacy evidence. The site does not assume that the observance still recurs today.

Scope and status

The verified scope stored for this record is Worldwide / NASA Earth Day 2014 crowdsourced photo event. The site preserves that boundary and does not infer broader government, global or public-holiday status from the observance name alone.

Also known as

NASA Global Selfie

Classification

Topic and context

Animals, Nature & Environment →
Accuracy controls

What this page does not assume

  • Keep the source-defined country, community, organizer or institutional scope; do not silently broaden it.
  • Do not treat the title alone as proof of government recognition or public-holiday status.
  • Do not add a creator, founding story or origin claim unless the supporting evidence establishes it.
  • Refresh the target year before publishing a new date when the record is not safely portable.
  • Historical Context Only.
Provenance

Sources

Source policy →
  1. NASA — Global Selfie Earth Day event announcementOfficial Government Agency
  2. NASA — Global Selfie mosaic releaseOfficial Government Agency
Reader questions

Frequently asked questions

When is Global Selfie Earth Day?

22 April 2014 (NASA Global Selfie event) The stored recurrence guidance is: NASA Global Selfie event: 22 April 2014; do not annualize without a new authoritative organizer record.

Does Global Selfie Earth Day fall on the same date every year?

The record is historical/legacy and is not treated as a currently recurring annual date.

Is Global Selfie Earth Day an official public holiday?

The authority record verifies it within this scope: Worldwide / NASA Earth Day 2014 crowdsourced photo event. That recognition does not by itself make it a statutory public holiday; the site only makes public-holiday claims when the supporting authority record explicitly does so.

Who established or recognizes Global Selfie Earth Day?

The stored designation basis is: NASA’s Global Selfie was a specific Earth Day 2014 event inviting people worldwide to submit selfies for a crowdsourced Earth mosaic. The NASA evidence does not establish an annual observance named “Global Selfie Earth Day.”. Supporting provenance includes NASA — Global Selfie Earth Day event announcement. The site does not infer a separate creator or founder unless reviewed evidence establishes one.

Is Global Selfie Earth Day international or country-specific?

No single country is assigned to this record in the authority dataset. The source-defined scope is: Worldwide / NASA Earth Day 2014 crowdsourced photo event. Use that scope rather than assuming worldwide or country-specific status.

How is this page verified?

The factual layer is source-backed and keeps its date rule, scope, provenance and editorial guardrails attached to the authority record. This record was checked on 2026-09-09.

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