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Cleaning Up Our Air: Tracking Air Quality from Space

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Earth seen from the International Space Station.

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Students

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Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12

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Breathe fresh air. Learn how the air we breathe has become cleaner. Learn about a type of smog called photochemical smog and how satellites that can track how air pollution are showing decreasing amounts of smog. Plus, look at cities as sources of air pollution, and see how one type of air pollution has improved in “Data Detective.” Read the article by the Earth Observatory for Kids page, EO Kids.

Cleaning Up Our Air: Tracking Air Quality from Space