NASA's Mineral Dust Detector Starts Gathering Data - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Newly installed on the space station, the instrument, called EMIT, will help answer questions about how mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions affects climate.

While the EMIT instrument can measure the spectral signature of light from such materials as vegetation, rocks, snow and ice, and human-made surfaces, its primary mission, beginning in August, will b… [+582 chars]

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