During the very early morning hours on Friday, SpaceX successfully launched NASA’s TEMPO satellite that can track North America’s pollution. Read more:
Getting a little TEMPO for the missionNASA described
it as the first space-based instrument to track and monitor major air pollutants over North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian oil sands to below Mexico City. The TEMPO mission is a collaboration between the space agency and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , with support from the NASA Science Mission Directorate.
“The TEMPO instrument is a UV-visible spectrometer, and will be the first ever space-based instrument to monitor air pollutants hourly across the North American continent during daytime,”NASA stated that TEMPO will monitor the major air pollutants hourly and it is believed it will revolutionize air quality forecasts.
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