NASA Conducts Trial At Greenhouse Gas Detector

Spectrometers for greenhouse gas emission-producing detectors on earth (photo: dock. NASA JPL)

JAKARTA A mirror wall box arrived at Planet Labs, San Francisco, on September 12. This box contains a spectrometer to observe carbon dioxide and methane on the earth's surface.

Quoted fromSpace, the box containing this spectrometer will be combined with the Tanager satellite and launched in 2024. Later, Tanager will identify the super greenhouse gas emittance producers on earth.

To achieve the goal of launching Tanager, a spectrometer box is urgently needed, even being the most important key. Therefore, JetNASA Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) staff needs to test the mechanism of the spectrometer first.

After placing the methane sample, JPL confirmed that the spectrometer had been recorded. In fact, the quality produced from the spectrometer is extraordinary.

"This is a good sign for the measurement of the space that will soon follow," said JPL researcher Robert Green in an official statement.

In addition to methane testing, other tests were also carried out to ensure spectrometers were able to withstand the launch and survive in harsh space conditions.

Meanwhile, when launched, the Spectrometer will assist the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source (EMIT) investigation monitoring the exploding mineral dust in the earth's desert from the International Space Station (ISS).

However, this spectrometer will work on a different side of the EMIT, which is in orbit that wraps around the earth's poles.