NASA’s TEMPO Mission

By IASbook Team September 26, 2023 Educational Resources 0 Comments

Recently NASA launched its Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument from Florida on board a SpaceX rocket.

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About the TEMPO Mission

Launched On: April 7, 2023
Launched By: NASA
Launched From: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Launched Using: Falcon9 rocket of SpaceX

TEMPO

It is an instrument developed by NASA that can track air pollution over North America from space.
It will allow scientists to monitor air pollutants and their emission sources down to the neighborhood level.

Functioning

TEMPO is hosted on an Intelsat communications satellite in geostationary orbit.
TEMPO spectroscopic measurements in the ultraviolet and visible range provide a tropospheric measurement suite that includes the key elements of tropospheric air pollution.
It will be able to measure the spectra required to retrieve ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), formaldehyde (H2CO), glyoxal (C2H2O2), aerosols, cloud parameters, and UV-B radiation.