New NASA Observatory Set to Take On Carbon Conundrums

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NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is in final preparations for a July launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Carbon dioxide is a critical component of Earth's carbon cycle and is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission will provide a more complete, global picture of the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide as well as their "sinks," the places where carbon dioxide is pulled out of Earth's atmosphere and stored. This new tool will map the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.
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All of the educator rangers in Olympic National Park assigned to the  temperate rain forest ecosystem are looking forward to a successful deployment of OCO2. Question from my peers...can we buy those cool OCO2 shirts?

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this time OCO 2 and Glory 2 will be launched on a Delta. NASA and Orbital Corp has terminated the Taurus Program because of faulty equipment. this way is much safer the Delta is also built by ATK Thiokol and has a proven track record with 170 successful launches and only a few blew up.  if all goes according to plan NASA and JAXA will have two earth observing spacecraft in the A Train monitoring the worlds weather this year. 

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