EMIT Fact Sheet

EMIT, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, was built by scientists to understand how dust affects the climate. The instrument’s primary mission is to map the prevalence of key miner...

This image shows the first measurements taken by EMIT on July 27, 2022, as it passed over Western Australia. The image at the front of the cube shows a mix of materials in Western Australia, includ...

A video covering EMIT's launch and early post-launch activities, including first light data.

The radiator and enclosure panel elements of the heat rejection system of NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument in its vibration environment test configuration in...

Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California attach NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) telescope and imaging spectrometer to prepa...

A view of NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) telescope and imaging spectrometer, in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California with the Optical Bench Assembly of NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument.

Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California prepare NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument for full instrument integration...

Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California prepare NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument for full instrument integ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California prepare NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument for thermal vacuum environmental testing,...

An animation depicting EMIT's installation onto the International Space Station (ISS).

B-roll, animations, and soundbites for media and public use. Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will co...

Surface dust storm at science experiment base camp for FRontiers in dust minerAloGical CoMposition and its Effects upon climaTe (FRAGMENT) in M´Hamid, Morocco (September 2019)

Mineral dust storm in Morocco 2019 showing mineral dust emitted into the atmosphere.  EMIT will measure the Earth’s arid land dust source regions to enable new modeling and understanding of the Ear...

Mineral dust storm in Morocco 2019 showing mineral dust emitted into the atmosphere.  EMIT will measure the Earth’s arid land dust source regions to enable new modeling and understanding of the Ear...