NASA's first Earth Venture Instrument mission will measure 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 a telecommunications host spacecraft with the goal to launch in 2023.
Learn MoreThe 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. It will collect high-resolution measurements of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, data which will 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.
