EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)

NASA’s EMIT Collects Data on Mid-Atlanic Plant Communities

Perched on the International Space Station, NASA's EMIT can differentiate between types of vegetation to help researchers understand the distribution…

NASA’s EMIT Scans the Amazon River in Northern Brazil

NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30, 2024, as part of…

NASA’s EMIT Mission Produces Maps of Arid Region Surface Minerals

NASA's EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth's dry regions using data from the…

EMIT Identifying Methane Plumes Around the Globe

EMIT identified a cluster of 12 methane plumes within a 150-square-mile (400-square-kilometer) area of southern Uzbekistan on Sept. 1, 2022.…

EMIT Methane Spectral Fingerprint

The cube shows methane (purple, orange, yellow) over Turkmenistan. The rainbow colors are the spectral fingerprints from corresponding spots in…

EMIT Spots Methane Hotspots

This image shows a 2-mile (3-kilometer) long plume of methane southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Methane is a potent greenhouse…

NASA’s EMIT Mission Generates Image Cube of Surface Minerals in Southwestern Libya

The image cube's front panel is a true-color view of part of southwestern Libya observed by NASA's EMIT mission. The…

NASA’s EMIT Measures Surface Dust in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia

Installed on the space station in July 2022, EMIT orbits Earth about once every 90 minutes, to map the world's…

NASA’s EMIT Collects Mineral Maps, Spectral Fingerprints From Nevada

NASA's EMIT mission recently gathered mineral spectra in northwest Nevada that match what the agency's AVIRIS instrument found in 2018,…