NASA says the instrument is expected to begin full operations in October.
TEMPO is the first ever spaced-based instrument that will measure air quality above North America from its orbit which is about 22,000 miles above the equator, according to“Neighborhoods and communities across the country will benefit from TEMPO’s game-changing data for decades to come,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson“This summer, millions of Americans felt firsthand the effect of smoke from forest fires on our health.
NASA and the Biden-Harris Administration are committed to making it easier for everyday Americans and decisionmakers to access and use TEMPO data to monitor and improve the quality of the air we breathe, benefitting life here on Earth.”said it’s part of a mission between NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory which is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “TEMPO is beginning to measure hourly daytime air pollution over greater North America,” said Kelly Chance, SAO senior physicist and TEMPO principal investigator “It measures ozone, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, aerosols, water vapor, and several trace gases. There are already almost 50 science studies being planned that are based around this new way to collect data.”
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