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New instruments to control the ozone layer in the Space Station

This 2017 in the International Space Station, the Nasa wants to install an ozone sensor (SAGE III), which helps to observe the changes of the ozone layer, and it wants to install an instrument of last generation Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), too.  From this station it can observe the state of our planet and for this reason SAGE III and LIS are going to be put in there.

SAGE III will perform two functions: Measure ozone at multiple levels in the atmosphere and monitor the ozone layer around the Earth throughout the year. And LIS will capture data of lighting bolts in real time.

There are provided another instruments for 2019, for example: GEDI that will do a monitoring of tropical forests or ECOSTRESS that will study the use of water and the hydric stress in the vegetation.

(This will be the STAGE III)

Link: http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2017/03/08/58c03425ca4741214f8b456e.html

08/03/2017