NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 is encapsulated into the Delta 2 payload fairing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. OCO-2 is scheduled to launch at 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1, 2014. Credit: NASA/30th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force
Title: Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2: NASA's New Carbon Sleuth Published on Jan 9, 2017 youtube Code: https://youtu.be/OiKio4wri_8 Duration 2:05 NASA
NASA's OCO-2 mission, scheduled to launch July 1 from Vandenberg AFB, California, will make precise measurements of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. The orbiting observatory is NASA's first satellite mission dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, a critical component of Earth's carbon cycle that is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate. OCO-2 will provide a better understanding of the sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and how they are changing over time.
