The agency's research on our own planet has never been more vital.
on Dec. 8 that opened the agency's inaugural climate summit, NASA administrators and scientists talked about some of the work being done to research and address climate change.
But even with all that data, NASA has plans to provide an even more detailed look at our planet. In collaboration with CNES, France's space agency, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission on Dec. 16. The mission will be the most sophisticated to date to document our planet's surface water, measuring not only sea levels but also the levels of lakes, rivers and reservoirs, as well as data on ocean currents.
The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, due to launch in March 2023, is another way that NASA is doubling down in its efforts to collect data on pollution and the sources of climate change on Earth. NASA also oversees aeronautics research — the study of flight, aviation and the atmosphere. Aviation currently contributes about 3.5% of global greenhouse gas emission, said Bob Pearce, NASA's associate administrator for aeronautics research, and that percentage is only growing.
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