How NASA Sees the Air We Breathe

NASA and NOAA, among other agencies, worked together this summer through the STAQS and AEROMMA missions to calibrate and validate NASA’s new TEMPO satellite. The satellite and missions combined aim to not only better measure air quality, and the major pollutants that impact it, but also to improve air quality, from street to stratosphere. This effort was documented during the August 2023 campaign leg, which took place over the Chicago region.


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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Kathleen Gaeta(GSFC AIMMS): Lead Producer, Lead Videographer, Editor
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Laura Judd (NASA Langley): Scientist
Sally Younger (NASA JPL): Writer
Daniel Horton (Northwestern University): Scientist
Scott Collis (CROCUS): Scientist
Rafael Méndez Peña: Videographer

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