NASA has launched a 24-hour global pollution monitoring service that will eventually allow scientists to give daily "chemical forecasts" from space.
The $US785million five-year mission will see a NASA spacecraft carrying British-built technology to measure ozone levels and man-made pollutants, and analyse how they interact with global weather patterns.
...there was no political agenda linked to the Aura project...
"What people do with the information is not something we can get involved in," Dr Reinhard Beer, a NASA scientist said.
~Besides ozone & carbon dioxide what are some of the other man-made pollutants being monitored? Pesticides? Herbicides? Sulfur dioxide? How precise of an instrument is AURA? Can it identify emissions from a weapons factory? (An 'infant formula' factory?) A meth 'lab' in the woods?
Posted by Cieciel at December 28, 2004 09:25 AM