The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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This image shows ammonia distributions over Europe in 2008, as measured by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) instrument on the MetOp satellite. The image has been superimposed over an image acquired by the MODIS instrument. The yellow to red colours indicate areas with high concentrations of ammonia. The white structures are clouds.