NASA collaborates with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to document planet-wide changes in the environment, society during the Covid-19 lockdown
Current Affairs : India was among a few nations on the planet where ozone harming substances and carbon dioxide (CO2) outflow from non-renewable energy sources burning decreased because of lockdowns forced to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in the wake of watching satellite information.
America’s NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) worked together just because to archive planet-wide changes in the earth and social orders during the lockdowns. The offices examined information from their Earth-watching satellites following changes in air and water quality, environmental change, financial movement, and agribusiness.
As indicated by NASA, the offices framed a taskforce in April and recognized the most pertinent satellite information streams. “At the point when we started to see from space how changing examples of human movement brought about by the pandemic were visibly affecting the planet, we realized that on the off chance that we joined assets, we could offer an amazing new systematic instrument as a powerful influence for this quick moving emergency,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA partner manager for science, in an announcement.
Aditi Mehta 