Leonardo DeCaprio visits NASA to discuss climate change (5 images)

Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Saturday, April 23, 2016. During his visit, Mr. DiCaprio interviewed Dr. Piers Sellers, an Earth scientist, former astronaut and current deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate. The two discussed the different missions NASA has underway to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere, water and land masses for a climate change documentary that Mr. DiCaprio has in production. Using a wall-size, high-definition display system that shows visual representations based on actual science data, Mr. DiCaprio and Dr. Sellers discussed data results from NASA's fleet of satellites in Earth's orbit. During his visit, Mr. DiCaprio also visited the facility holding NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that is being developed as a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror.

Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on April 23, 2016. DiCaprio was there to interview Dr. Piers Sellers, deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate, for an upcoming documentary on climate change that he is producing. NASA Photo by Rebecca Roth/UPI

License photo | Permalink

---

---

Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on April 23, 2016. DiCaprio was there to interview Dr. Piers Sellers, deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate, for an upcoming documentary on climate change that he is producing. NASA Photo by Rebecca Roth/UPI

License photo | Permalink

---

---

Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on April 23, 2016. DiCaprio was there to interview Dr. Piers Sellers, deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate, for an upcoming documentary on climate change that he is producing. NASA Photo by Rebecca Roth/UPI

License photo | Permalink

---

---

Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on April 23, 2016. DiCaprio was there to interview Dr. Piers Sellers, deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate, for an upcoming documentary on climate change that he is producing. NASA Photo by Rebecca Roth/UPI

License photo | Permalink

---

---