This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. To get a better idea of where CO 2 is emitted and absorbed on Earth, scientists and engineers at NASA have rebuilt ...

The satellite, called Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, is designed to monitor carbon dioxide in our planet’s atmosphere. CO2 levels have been increasing since the Industrial Revolution ...

The species pumps 40 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere ... for much longer than that, OCO-2 team members have said. This marks NASA's second attempt to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide ...

GeoCarb will be NASA’s first attempt to monitor greenhouse ... CO2 they emitted plus half the CO2 that humans produced. If NASA is allowed to proceed with the OCO-3 mission, the payload will ...