Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

April 10, 2023

NASA’s high-resolution air pollution monitoring instrument TEMPO lifted atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
TEMPO will allow scientists to monitor air pollutants and their emission sources and air quality across greater North America on an hourly basis during daytime.
Situated in geostationary orbit 35,786 kilometers above the equator.
Among the pollutants tracked by TEMPO will be nitrogen dioxide, produced from the combustion of fossil fuels, formaldehyde and ozone.
It will be able to measure atmospheric pollution down to a spatial resolution of 10 square kilometers or neighborhood level.