OCO-3
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NASA’s new carbon-monitoring instruments promise first-class science at steerage-class prices

If all goes as planned, NASA’s campaign to pinpoint sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide will get a major boost early next year with the launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3, a leftover satellite instrument modified to attach to the International Space Station. OCO-3 is an important precursor to the more ambitious Geostationary Carbon […]

by Debra Werner and Sandra Erwin