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The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (Emit) is a space instrument developed at NASA’s jet propulsion center and was launched into space on July 14, 2022. EMIT was launched using Elon Musk’s Space X rocket to its destination on the International Space Station (ISS), 400km high. The EMIT instrument circles the earth every 90 minutes from its attached position on the ISS.

Flown artifacts including a lunar dust stained netting fragment (Apollo 16) and a surface and rover used beta cloth (Apollo 15) from all manned Apollo missions 7-17!

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is one of five primary instruments on NASA’s Aqua satellite, which launched in 2002 and continues to operate today. The sensor measures the heat radiance reflected from Earth’s surface or emitted as radiation from its atmosphere, which aids in monitoring weather patterns, detecting wildfires, and measuring long-term climate processes.