Climate Conversation Briefing for SpaceX CRS-25

This July 13, 2022, "climate conversation" aired on NASA TV with the following participants:

Kate Calvin, NASA chief scientist and climate advisor
Heidi Parris, associate scientist, International Space Station Program, NASA
Mike Roberts, chief scientist, ISS National Lab
Rob Green, JPL senior research scientist and EMIT principal investigator
Paula do Vale Pereira, BeaverCube, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m. EDT (5:44 p.m. PDT) Thursday, July 14, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station. The mission, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), will fly aboard SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory.

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deliver new science investigations, supplies, and equipment for the international crew, including a new climate research investigation.

Dragon will carry more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA investigations like EMIT, which will identify the composition of mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions and analyze dust carried through the atmosphere from deserts to see what effects it has on the planet, further advancing NASA’s data contributions to monitoring climate change.

Credit: NASA