1000 and counting…

Finally a quiet Christmas for the TROPOMI calibration team…

In Stunning Clarity

Today as if we put on new glasses, the world of air quality monitoring snapped into sharp focus.

Radio silence

Suffice it to say that there is a palpable energy coursing through the hallways here…

Another Cool Milestone

TROPOMI has reached another important milestone, literally a cool one! The decontamination phase has ended and the cooler door has been successfully opened. While closed in the period from launch until noon 7 November, 2017, the instrument was rather warm (near 300K) to ensure the outgassing of any lingering contaminants. Now open, the instrument (including […]

A look at the numbers…

Today is a day to celebrate a very big number, namely the Avogadro constant: 6.022 E+23 (the number of molecules in one mole) on what has been dubbed Mole Day. However, while it would take TROPOMI more than 5 E+12 years to measure a ‘mole’ of pixels, the numbers aren’t too shabby. TROPOMI produces roughly […]

One week and 100 orbits later…

Reflecting on the first week after launch with many successful milestones.