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Robert Lea

This ISS mission could 'open some eyes' about climate science

A stretched map of the world with sections in the northern and southern hemispheres mapped out with a color variance of measurement.

NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission has delivered the first-ever comprehensive map of minerals located across Earth's dust source regions.

Created with data collected up until Nov. 2023 by an imaging spectrometer based on the International Space Station (ISS), shows the precise locations of 10 important minerals based on how they reflect and absorb light. 

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