Take Flight with NASA's STAQS Campaign to Support TEMPO Earth Mission
NASA and NOAA’s STAQS campaign is taking to the skies and ground this summer to support TEMPO satellite data. Scientists will compare the air quality data they measure from planes with what TEMPO measures from orbit, making both measurements better. Air pollution—including ozone, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde, and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols—can have serious consequences for human health and the environment.
TEMPO, launched in April 2023, forms part of an air quality satellite "virtual constellation" that offers a more holistic view of how pollution is transported around the Northern Hemisphere. Ball Aerospace in Broomfield, Colorado built the TEMPO instrument.
Kelly Chance, of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the principal investigator for TEMPO.
“NASA makes data from instruments like TEMPO easily accessible to everyone,” said Karen St. Germain, division director for NASA’s Earth Sciences Division. “Which means that everyone from community and industry leaders to asthma sufferers are going to be able to access air quality information at a higher level of detail—in both time and location—than they’ve ever been able to before. And that also provides the information needed to start addressing one of the most pressing human health challenges.”
Learn more about TEMPO: https://tempo.si.edu
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Lead Producer: Kathleen Gaeta (GSFC AIMMS)
Duration: 53 seconds
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