It is NASAs first mission dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, a - TopicsExpress



          

It is NASAs first mission dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is the primary human contributor to climate change. The half-ton OCO-2 spacecraft built by Orbital Sciences holds a single instrument that will use reflected sunlight to measure where carbon dioxide is being released and also absorbed — the so-called sources and sinks — across the globe over varying seasons and annual cycles.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:08:07 +0000

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