NASA’s EMIT Spots Toxic Contamination off California Coast

NASA’s EMIT Spots Toxic Contamination off California Coast

NASA’s EMIT instrument, originally designed to study minerals in deserts, is now uncovering signs of sewage pollution along the Southern California coast, from 250 miles above Earth. In a new study, researchers used EMIT’s hyperspectral imaging to detect cyanobacteria pigments in a massive wastewater plume at the Tijuana River’s mouth. The discovery demonstrates how this [...]