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Following months of meticulous testing at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK to ensure that it will deliver first-class data on air quality around the world, the new Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument has been delivered to Airbus in France ready to be installed on the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite. The Sentinel-5 mission will measure the distribution of atmospheric trace gases such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, formaldehyde, glyoxal, carbon monoxide, and methane, as well as aerosols.
Read full story: Air-quality mission ready to join its host weather satellite