UK-built pollution monitoring satellite ready for launch

The Sentinel-5P spacecraft is designed to monitor the pollution that causes a reported tens of thousands of deaths every year in the UKLast year, the European Space Agency launched the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars. It is designed to look for methane – a key tracer of life –to determine if Martian microbes are present on the red planet.Now, ESA is preparing to launch another spacecraft to look at methane on another planet: our own.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 20, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Stuart Clark Tags: Science Climate change Space Environment Pollution European Space Agency Source Type: news