NASA Goddard

How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines

Tens of thousands of abandoned mines threaten waterways across the American West, but identifying which sites urgently need cleanup is slow and expensive. Now, NASA’s EMIT instrument can analyze the unique light signatures of mine waste from space to help focus remediation efforts where they're needed most. Universal Music Production: Temporal Shift Instrumental Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer: Katie Jepson (eMITS) Scientist: Dana Chadwick (NASA/JPL) Producer: Katie Jepson (eMITS) Narrator: Katie Jepson (eMITS) Animators: Katie Jepson (eMITS), Wes D. Buchanan (eMITS) Camera: Grace Weikert (eMITS) Project support: Kathleen Gaeta Greer (NASA/GSFC/AMA), Sofie Bates (eMITS) This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15042. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/ If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · X: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc