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The NASA Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) investigation represents the first time NASA has partnered with epidemiologists and health organizations on a satellite mission to study human health and improve lives.

What is MAIA?

What is MAIA?

NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) investigation will seek to understand how different types of air pollution affect human health.


MAIA and Your Health

MAIA and Your Health

Air pollution can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, lung disease, and stroke. Find out more about what is known.


The MAIA Investigation

The MAIA Mission

The MAIA Observatory is a state-of-the-art NASA instrument aboard a spacecraft provided by Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, the Italian Space Agency). Data from the Observatory will be used in health studies to examine the health effects of various types of particulate air pollution.




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Los Angeles is a focus of the upcoming MAIA mission
NASA and the Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) are partnering to build and launch the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) mission, an effort to investigate the health impacts of tiny airborne particles polluting some of the world’s most populous cities.
NASA and Italian Space Agency Join Forces on Air Pollution Mission
The agency is tackling air quality from all angles.
With new satellites and programs, the agency is tackling air quality from all angles—for the health of people and the planet.
NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) Principal Investigator David Diner.
When NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s latest eye in the sky shoots into orbit next year, the sophisticated instrument built by scientists at the Pasadena-based institution known for its exploration of Mars and Saturn will be observing our own planet, Mother Earth.
JPL Readies New Orbiting Observatory to Study Earth’s Worst Kind of Air Pollution
MAIA target areas.
Exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) is the top environmental health risk worldwide and has been associated with more than 4 million deaths per year, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, low birth weight, lung cancer, and other adverse health outcomes.
Monitoring Particulate Air Pollution and Human Health in Africa