Some Sentinel-5 team members

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.

The photo shows some of the team members involved in the Sentinel-5 mission.

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