NASA BFG ON NEW GLOBAL AIR QUALITY CONSTELLATION, Mar 9, 2020, virtual, 10:00 am ET

NASA will hold a media teleconference on March 9, 2020 at 10:00 am ET to discuss an international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding of air quality.  It involves three satellite missions: South Korea’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on GEO-KOMSAT-2B;  NASA’s upcoming Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument; and ESA’s Sentinel-4.

The teleconference will air on NASA Live.

Panelists for the media teleconference are:

• Barry Lefer, tropospheric composition program manager in NASA’s Earth Science Division at agency’s headquarters, Washington
• Jhoon Kim, GEMS principal investigator at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
• Kelly Chance, TEMPO principal investigator at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Ben Veihelmann, Sentinel-4 principal investigator for ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands