<P> On August 31, 2016, Netflix announced that Nye would appear in a new series titled Bill Nye Saves the World, which premiered on April 21, 2017 . Nye was honorary co-chair of the inaugural March for Science on April 22, 2017 . </P> <P> In the early 2000s, Nye assisted in the development of a small sundial that was included in the Mars Exploration Rover missions . Known as MarsDial, it included small colored panels to provide a basis for color calibration in addition to helping keep track of time . From 2005 to 2010, Nye was the vice president of The Planetary Society, an organization that advocates space science research and the exploration of other planets, particularly Mars . He became the organization's second Executive Director in September 2010 when Louis Friedman stepped down . </P> <P> In November 2010, Nye became the face of a new permanent exhibition at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California . Bill Nye's Climate Lab features Nye as commander of the Clean Energy Space Station and invites visitors on an urgent mission to thwart climate change . Beginning with a view of Planet Earth from space, visitors explore air, water, and land galleries to discover how climate change affects Earth's connected systems, and how to use the Sun, wind, land, and water to generate clean energy . In an interview about the exhibit, Nye said: </P> <P> Everything in the exhibit is geared to showing you that the size of the problem of climate change is big . Showing you a lot about energy use...It's a huge opportunity...We need young people, entrepreneurs, young inventors, young innovators to change the world . </P>

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