WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 25, to focus on the newest findings of the company’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), together with a brand new, unanticipated functionality which can assist higher perceive impacts of local weather change.
Audio of the teleconference will likely be streamed stay on NASA’s website.
EMIT was put in on the International Space Station in July. Its major mission is to map the prevalence of key minerals within the planet’s deserts so as to advance understanding of airborne dust’s effects on climate. However, the imaging spectrometer, which was designed and constructed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, has additionally demonstrated a brand new essential potential which the next teleconference members will focus on:
- Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Robert Green, EMIT principal investigator, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Southern California
- Andrew Thorpe, analysis technologist, JPL
- Kirt Costello, chief scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program
Media fascinated with collaborating ought to request the dial in-details a minimum of two hours prior to the beginning of the decision by sending their full title, media affiliation, electronic mail deal with, and cellphone quantity to Rexana Vizza at [email protected] on Tuesday, Oct. 25.
For extra details about EMIT, go to:
https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/
SOURCE NASA
