Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

On May 30th, 2024, NASA and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian announced the public release of “high-quality, near real-time air quality data” from NASA’s TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) mission.

Posted August 13, 2024

Aura

Earth

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Earth-Observing Aura Satellite

A few of the many highlights from the last 20 years since Aura Launched.

Posted July 16, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts

This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. The East Coast flights will take place from June 17-26.

Posted June 14, 2024

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Scientists Take to the Seas to Study Air Quality

Satellites continuously peer down from orbit to take measurements of Earth, and this week a group of scientists set sail to verify some of those data points. On June 2, the SCOAPE (Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment) research team, in partnership with the U.S.

Posted June 6, 2024

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Earth Science

Langley Research Center

NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data

NASA has made new data available that can provide air pollution observations at unprecedented resolutions – down to the scale of individual neighborhoods.

Posted May 30, 2024

Climate Change

Earth

Earth System Observatory (ESO)

Natural Disasters

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Selects New Aircraft-Driven Studies of Earth and Climate Change

NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands.

Posted April 19, 2024

General

Climate Change

Langley Research Center

NASA Headquarters

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

Ozone Layer

Quesst (X-59)

Supersonic Flight

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and revolutionizing flight have been named TIME’s Inventions of 2023. TIME announced the honorees on Oct. 24.

Posted October 27, 2023

Earth

Earth Science

Earth's Atmosphere

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

A Tale of Three Pollutants

Freight, smoke, and ozone impact the health of both Chicago residents and communities downwind. A NASA-led mission looks to help by mapping air pollutants at a neighborhood scale.

Posted October 24, 2023