{"id":7988,"date":"2023-04-09T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T02:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:41:45","slug":"tropospheric-emissions-monitoring-of-pollution-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tropospheric-emissions-monitoring-of-pollution-tempo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will monitor major air pollutants across <strong>North America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Observations:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It will make important scientific observations, including that <strong>of ozone, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and formaldehyde levels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is capable of measuring air quality over North America hourly during the daytime with a <strong>resolution of<\/strong> <strong>several square miles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It monitors the effects of everything from rush-hour traffic to pollution from <strong>forest fires and volcanoes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The present pollution-monitoring satellites are in <strong>low Earth orbit<\/strong> (LEO), but this new monitoring instrument <strong>is hosted in geostationary orbit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After this launch NASA has joined <strong>South Korea\u2019s<\/strong> Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer and the <strong>European Space Agency\u2019s Sentinel-4<\/strong> satellite to become an air quality monitoring satellite constellation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the troposphere?<\/h3>\n<p>The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, which extends from the surface up to an average height of about 7-20 kilometers (4-12 miles), depending on the location and season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/spacex-launches-nasa-tiempo-air-quality-satellite-8544298\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>SpaceX launches NASA\u2019s TEMPO air quality monitoring instrument<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution instrument   will monitor major air pollutants across North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7988","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\/7988","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=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}