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TEMPO is NASA's first Earth Venture Instrument mission. It will measure pollution of North America, from Mexico City to the Canadian oil sands, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific hourly and at high spatial resolution. TEMPO observations are from the geostationary vantage point, flying on a telecommunications host spacecraft. It will measure ozone, and air quality, and conduct research on pollution emission inventories, monitor population exposure, and evaluate effective emission-control strategies... The TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution) mission aims to answer this question with more detail and precision than ever before, by creating a revolutionary new dataset of atmospheric chemistry measurements from space. TEMPO will be the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent every daylight hour at high spatial resolution... The instrument, an ultraviolet and visible spectrometer was completed in 2019, will hitch a..