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TEMPO Pollutions Monitoring Instrument Returns First Images

Part of NASA's Earth Venture Instrument Program

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Tom Patton
Aug 28, 2023
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The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument developed by Ball Aerospace has released its first images of Earth, the next step in its mission to improve air quality monitoring across greater North America.

"Achieving first light from TEMPO is a major milestone in our goal to provide a complete picture of air quality issues acros…

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