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MOPITT Anomaly

Resolved Outage
Issued
Aug. 11, 2024
Resolved
April 9, 2025

MOPITT Anomaly: On August 11, 2024, at approximately 19:00 UTC, the Terra Measurement of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) Pressure Modulation Cell 2 (PMC-2) motor current and amplitude started to fluctuate, corrupting science. MOPITT remains in Science Mode however, science is degraded with PMC-2 turned off. Terra spacecraft and other instruments continue to operate nominally.

Details

Last Updated

June 25, 2026

Published

Oct. 18, 2024