A new Earth science mission has arrived at the @iss 🌏
After a successful launch on Thursday, the SpaceX Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station at 8:21am PT (11:21am ET) this morning.
One of the science experiments onboard is EMIT (or the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation), which was developed at JPL. The instrument will use @NASA imaging spectroscopy technology to map dust-producing regions to study how airborne mineral dust might affect our planet’s climate.
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