NASA's first Earth Venture Instrument mission measures pollution of North America, from Mexico City to the Canadian oil sands, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific hourly and at high spatial resolution. TEMPO observations are from the geostationary vantage point, flying on the telecommunication spacecraft Intelsat-40e (IS-40e) in April 2023.
Learn MoreThe TEMPO instrument is a UV-visible spectrometer, and is the first ever space-based instrument to monitor air pollutants hourly across the North American continent during daytime. It collects high-resolution measurements of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, which revolutionize air quality forecasts.
Learn MoreMay 30, 2024 | TEMPO Instrument Air Quality Data Now Publicly Available
NASA has made new data available that can provide air pollution observations at unprecedented resolutions – down to the scale of individual neighborhoods.
