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Posts Tagged ‘OCO-2’

NASA Releases OCO-2 Carbon Satellite Image

NASA Releases OCO-2 Carbon Satellite Image

NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) can for the first time help identify and visualize carbon sources (emitters) and sinks (absorbers), and takes 100 times more measurements (100,000 per day) than the previous best instrument in space the Japanese GEOS-5 satellite launched in 2009. The ocean and plants on land emit more than 20 [Continue]

New NASA Satellite to Silence Climate Change Deniers?

New NASA Satellite to Silence Climate Change Deniers?

The OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 or aka the Climate Change or Carbon Cycle Observatory is now in orbit after being successfully launched on July 2 at 2:56 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Station, California. The OCO-2 finally replaces the first OCO satellite that was destroyed on launch in 2009, which would have no doubt [Continue]