WASHINGTON, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is hosting a
media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT
Monday, March 9, to discuss an international collaboration
aimed at improving our understanding of air quality. The
teleconference will stream live on the agency's website.
Scientists from the United
States, South Korea, and
the Netherlands will discuss a
pioneering new constellation of space-based instruments designed to
advance global air quality science and monitoring.
The first part of the three-mission constellation already is in
space. Last month, South Korea's
Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument
was launched aboard the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite. During the next
few years, GEMS will be joined by NASA's Tropospheric Emissions:
Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument and ESA's (European
Space Agency's) Sentinel-4 spacecraft. Each mission will make
hourly daytime air quality measurements over different parts of the
Northern Hemisphere from geostationary orbit.
Panelists for the media teleconference are:
- Barry Lefer, tropospheric
composition program manager in NASA's Earth Science Division at
agency's headquarters, Washington
- Jhoon Kim, GEMS principal
investigator at Yonsei University,
Seoul, South Korea
- Kelly Chance, TEMPO principal
investigator at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Ben Veihelmann, Sentinel-4
principal investigator for ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
To participate in the call, media must contact Joe Atkinson at joseph.s.atkinson@nasa.gov by 5
p.m. Sunday, March 8, for dial-in
instructions. The public can send questions during the
teleconference using the hashtag #AskNASA.
For more information about NASA's Earth science programs,
visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/earth
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