First Imaging Spectroscopy Observations and Early Science from the NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation

Robert O Green1, Natalie M Mahowald2, David R Thompson3, Roger Nelson Clark4, Bethany L Ehlmann5, Paul A Ginoux6, Olga V. Kalashnikova3, Abigail Keebler5, Ron L Miller7, Greg S Okin8, Thomas H Painter9, Carlos Pérez García-Pando10, Vincent J Realmuto11, Gregg A Swayze12, Raymond F Kokaly12, Eyal Ben-dor13, Luis Guanter14, Philip G Brodrick1, Longlei Li15, Kathleen Grant16, Vincenzo Obiso17, Lauren Zastko18, Nimrod Carmon19, Francisco Ochoa20, Benjamin R Phillips21, Kevin Reath22, Andrew K Thorpe3, Dana Chadwick23 and Yue Huang24, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)USGS, Denver, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA, Princeton, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (8)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)NASA/GISS, New York, United States, (11)JPL, Pasadena, United States, (12)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (13)University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, (14)Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, (15)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (16)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (17)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (18)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (19)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (20)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (21)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (22)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (23)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (24)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States