{"id":18324,"date":"2023-12-19T01:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:41:58","slug":"tempo-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tempo-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the TEMPO satellite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About TEMPO satellite\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution\u00a0(TEMPO)\u00a0monitors major air pollutants across\u00a0North America.<\/li>\n<li>Its monitoring range extends from Canada\u2019s oil sands to the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and across the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of a virtual constellation with South Korea&#8217;s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) and the European Space Agency\u2019s upcoming satellite, aiming for comprehensive air pollution monitoring over the Northern Hemisphere.<\/li>\n<li>It will make important scientific observations, including that of\u00a0ozone, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and formaldehyde levels.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of measuring air quality over North America hourly during the daytime with a resolution of several square miles.<\/li>\n<li>It monitors the effects of everything from rush-hour traffic to pollution from forest fires and volcanoes.<\/li>\n<li>The present pollution-monitoring satellites are in low Earth orbit (LEO), but this new monitoring instrument is\u00a0hosted in geostationary orbit.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0designed for a 20-month operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Ozone?<\/h3>\n<p>Ozone is an odorless, colorless gas made up of three oxygen molecules (O3) and is a natural part of the environment. It occurs both in the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, or stratosphere, and at ground level in the lower atmosphere, or troposphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/science\/10-things-to-know-about-nasas-tempo-satellite-that-monitors-air-pollution-hourly-over-north-america-101702532551199.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>10 things to know about NASA&#8217;s TEMPO satellite that monitors air pollution hourly over North America<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPO satellite monitoring range extends from Canada\u2019s oil sands to the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and across the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}