NASA SpaceX Launches Device TEMPO To Monitor Air Pollution From Space height of near 36000 kilometer

Space agency NASA, in collaboration with Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, has launched a device in space that can monitor the pollution level on Earth. That means air quality can be measured from space only. Elon Musk’s air quality monitor has been named TEMPO. It is called Tropospheric Emission Monitoring of Pollution Instrument. Which was launched into space on 7 April.

This TEMPO instrument of NASA is the first tool left in space which will measure the earth’s pollution from such a height. According to the agency, it will work in an area of ​​4 square miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and from Canada to Mexico. The agency has given information about this in a Twitter post. NASA has said that it will send monitoring data every hour and will monitor throughout the day. This instrument will detect three main elements found in pollution.

It has been said that it is as big as the size of a washing machine. Caroline Nowlan, an atmospheric physicist at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said weather satellites are very common in geostationary orbit but until now there were no instruments measuring air quality. Till now, the pollution monitoring satellites present in low Earth orbit can provide data only once a day at a specific time. But about Tempo it has been said that it can give data every hour.

The agency says that in geostationary orbit, which is 35,786 kilometers above the Earth’s surface above the equator, Tempo will rotate with the Earth’s rotation. That is, it means that the speed at which the Earth is rotating, the tempo will also rotate in the orbit at the same speed and thus it will remain at the same place. So that it can send accurate data throughout the day.