“TEMPO, the first space-based probe to measure air pollution hourly over North America, has captured its inaugural images,” announced Xiong Liu, the deputy principal investigator of the TEMPO mission. The TEMPO instrument was successfully powered on for the first time on June 8, 2023, two months after its launch. “We can now proudly say we’re beginning a new era of air-quality monitoring over North America,” Liu added. The TEMPO mission is a collaborative effort between NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “We’ve been eagerly anticipating this moment,” said Kevin Daugherty, TEMPO project manager at NASA’s Langley … Continue reading Hourly Air Quality Updates? NASA’s TEMPO is Changing the Way We See Air Pollution!