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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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Perched on the International Space Station, NASA's EMIT can differentiate between types of vegetation to help researchers understand the distribution and traits of plant communities.
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NASA's EMIT Collects Data on Mid-Atlanic Plant Communities
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-14 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30, 2024, as part of an effort to map global ecosystem biodiversity.
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NASA's EMIT Scans the Amazon River in Northern Brazil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-11 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth's dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023.
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NASA's EMIT Mission Produces Maps of Arid Region Surface Minerals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-17 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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EMIT identified a cluster of 12 methane plumes within a 150-square-mile (400-square-kilometer) area of southern Uzbekistan on Sept. 1, 2022. The instrument captured the cluster within a single shot, called a scene by researchers.
PIA26113:
EMIT Identifying Methane Plumes Around the Globe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-25 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The cube shows methane (purple, orange, yellow) over Turkmenistan. The rainbow colors are the spectral fingerprints from corresponding spots in the front image. The blue line shows the methane detected by EMIT; the red line is the expected fingerprint.
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EMIT Methane Spectral Fingerprint
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-25 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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This image shows a 2-mile (3-kilometer) long plume of methane southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
PIA25592:
EMIT Spots Methane Hotspots
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The image cube's front panel is a true-color view of part of southwestern Libya observed by NASA's EMIT mission. The side panels depict the spectral fingerprints for every point in the image.
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NASA's EMIT Mission Generates Image Cube of Surface Minerals in Southwestern Libya
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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Installed on the space station in July 2022, EMIT orbits Earth about once every 90 minutes, to map the world's mineral-dust sources. This includes the Sahara, where it recently gathered data in an area of southwest Libya marked by the red box.
PIA25429:
NASA's EMIT Measures Surface Dust in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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NASA's EMIT mission recently gathered mineral spectra in northwest Nevada that match what the agency's AVIRIS instrument found in 2018, helping to confirm EMIT's accuracy.
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NASA's EMIT Collects Mineral Maps, Spectral Fingerprints From Nevada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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This image cube shows the true-color view of an area in northwest Nevada observed by NASA's EMIT imaging spectrometer. The side panels depict the spectral fingerprint for each point in the image.
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NASA's EMIT Generates Image Cube of Surface Minerals in Northwest Nevada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The mineral map shows a part of southwestern Libya, in the Sahara, observed by NASA's EMIT mission.
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EMIT Instrument's First Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-29 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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This image shows the first measurements taken by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) on July 27, 2022, as it passed over Western Australia.
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EMIT Instrument's First Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-01 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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Officials from NASA and JPL oversee vibration testing of the EMIT science instrument, including its telescope and imaging spectrometer.
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EMIT Put to the Test at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission instrument (left) sits in the trunk that will travel aboard SpaceX's 25th cargo resupply mission.
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EMIT Inside SpaceX Falcon 9 Trunk Ahead of Transport
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-12 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission instrument (right) sits in the trunk that will travel aboard SpaceX's 25th cargo resupply mission.
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EMIT Loaded Into SpaceX Falcon 9 Trunk Before Transport
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-02 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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JPL engineers and technicians put together components of EMIT, including its telescope, imaging spectrometer, and baseplate, which holds its electronics.
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EMIT's Components Come Together at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-02 Earth Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
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EMIT will collect color and composition information of surface minerals in the world's dry regions. The data will help climate scientists better understand how airborne dust influences air temperatures, weather, and climate.
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Global Mineral Dust Source Regions to Be Measured by EMIT
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