TROPOMI enables high resolution SO flux observations from Mt. Etna, Italy, and beyond.

The newly launched imaging spectrometer TROPOMI onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite provides atmospheric column measurements of sulfur dioxide (SO) and other gases with a pixel resolution of 3.5 × 7 km. This permits mapping emission plumes from a vast number of natural and anthropogenic emitters with unprecedented sensitivity, revealing sources which were previously undetectable from space.