Air Quality

Air Quality
Opportunities For Educators to Get Involved
Science Activation
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
The NASA Science Activation Program’s Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data (CosmicDS) project, led by Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works to bring authentic NASA data into the hands of educators and learners.
Posted August 6, 2026
Aerosols
Air Quality
Earth Observatory
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wildfires
Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
Posted July 22, 2026
Air Quality
Clouds
Earth
Ice & Glaciers
Landslides
Wildfires
The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.
Posted July 20, 2026
Air Quality
Earth Observatory
NOAA-21 (JPSS-2)
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
Wildfires
Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.
Posted July 16, 2026
Air Quality
Earth
Earth's Atmosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
Human Dimensions
Wildfires
Over the last decade, wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone pollution across much of the contiguous United States, creating unhealthy air far from active flames.
Posted June 4, 2026
Air Quality
Earth Observatory
Human Dimensions
Terra
Wildfires
Seasonal fires have darkened skies over Southeast Asia.
Posted April 23, 2026
Air Quality
Dust Storms
Earth Observatory
NOAA-21 (JPSS-2)
Terra
Strong winds in March 2026 carried Saharan dust across northwestern Africa and toward the Canary Islands, reducing visibility and prompting alerts.
Posted April 1, 2026
Air Quality
Airborne Science
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across the country who teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and several other university and government partners and collaborators.
Posted September 24, 2025
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