12.16.08 - China had clearer skies and easier breathing in mind in the summer of 2008 when they temporarily shuttered some factories and banished many cars in a pre-Olympic sprint to clean up Beijing's air.
10.31.08 - The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual maximum on Sept. 12, 2008, stretching over 27 million kilometers, or 10.5 square miles.
12.13.07 - With the help of NASA satellites, researchers are working to broaden daily forecasts to include predictions of air quality.
01.31.07 - For the first time, NASA scientists have used a shrewd spaceborne detective to track the origin and movement of water vapor throughout Earth's atmosphere.
12.14.06 - Two new NASA-funded studies of ozone in the tropics using NASA satellite data not previously available are giving scientists a fuller understanding of the processes driving ozone chemistry and its impacts on pollution and climate change.
Using satellites, regional air pollution and their sources can now be observed closely from space.
Scientists head north to learn about air quality, ozone, and climate change predictions.
The instruments onboard Aura will help scientists monitor pollution production and transport around the world.
The story of a molecule and the spacecraft designed to help us understand it.
A mission to understand and protect the air we breathe.
Learn more about this Earth observing mission.
Learn about Boeing's Delta II launch vehicles.