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DISCOVER-AQ project to begin flights to enhance measurement of ground-level air-quality from space

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This summer two NASA research airplanes will fly over the Baltimore-Washington region and northeast Maryland as part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space. Both aircraft will measure ozone and a mixture of soot and PM. DISCOVER-AQ instrumentation deployment strategy.

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Study finds power law scaling relationship between urban population and NO2 pollution

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These regions contain two-thirds of total global anthropogenic NO x emissions. The researchers used tropospheric NO 2 columns retrieved from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite, which measures NO 2 throughout the atmosphere in the afternoon around the world. parts per billion (U.S.),

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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit

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Cassegrain telescope, and are designed to measure the absorption of sunlight reflected off of Earth’s surface by carbon dioxide and molecular oxygen, as viewed in the near-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. GCOM-W1, Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat, and Aura are currently on orbit. The spectrometers will view Earth through an f/1.8

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