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2023

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution Instrument’ is a device of which space agency?
A
ISRO
B
NASA
C
ESA
D
JAXA
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (EVI-1) | NASA’s Earth Observing System.

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA’s TEMPO instrument is a payload on the Intelsat 40E satellite and will monitor air quality across North America. NASA’s high-resolution air pollution monitoring instrument TEMPO lifted atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10 AM IST on Friday.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will allow scientists to monitor air pollutants and their emission sources from space more comprehensively than ever before, down to the neighborhood level.

Detailed explanation-4: -How is NASA monitoring air pollution? NASA uses satellites orbiting Earth to keep an eye on air pollution. In fact, air quality forecasters use information about aerosols from NASA’s Aqua, Terra and Suomi-NPP satellites.

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