NASA's first Earth Venture Instrument mission measures key gases and aerosols impacting air quality across North America, from the Yucatán Peninsula to northern Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, on an hourly basis and with high spatial resolution. TEMPO collects data from a geostationary vantage point aboard the telecommunications spacecraft Intelsat-40e, launched in April 2023.
Learn MoreTEMPO is a UV-visible spectrometer and the first space-based instrument to measure atmospheric trace gases across North America every hour during daytime. TEMPO captures high-resolution data on ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere, revolutionizing air quality forecasts.
Learn MoreMay 30, 2024 |
NASA has made new data available that can provide information on air quality at unprecedented resolutions — down to the scale of individual neighborhoods.
