NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 (IMAGE)

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NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2

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NASA's $484M OCO-2 satellite launched last year which is watching the earth breathe by measuring the CO2 content of our atmosphere from space. The results of OCO-2 and other satellite missions will be much more accurate as a result of the new calculations.

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NASA - <a target="_blank"href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA18374">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA18374</a>

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