OCO-2

OCO-2 Mission Updates

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March 2015

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February 2015

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/february/new-nasa-earth-science-missions-expand-view-of-our-home-planet/

December 2014

Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014

The 'Initial Level 1 round' of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.

A full Level 2 set of CO2 data is scheduled to be available in March for scientists and the public "planet citizens" to download and explore.

Phys.org - Discovery - Weather - Nature

Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal

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November

Counting carbon over Southern California - OCO-2 at work

October

Mission status report

September

OCO Orbit

Megacities

August

August 13th/Climate Central news report of first data

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist who develops software algorithms for OCO to retrieve information about carbon dioxide in our atmosphere

July 2 2014

NASA Launches New Carbon-Sensing Mission to Monitor Earth’s Breathing

"Climate change is the challenge of our generation," says NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-launches-new-carbon-sensing-mission-to-monitor-earth-s-breathing/

Follow the tweets of the OCO-2 bird

OCO-2, a "game changer"... Follow the NASA climate blog

Earth Right Now

Climate.NASA

OCO Mission teams

"Game changing" science Unraveling mysteries

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Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2

Historic launch #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere

"First Light!" [1] [2] OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'

OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2

What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 #Earth360

Earth observing satellites, Orbiting Carbon Observatory the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by ‪#‎OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming

"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space" [3] [4] [5] [6]

About the Earth Observatory Mission

OCO-2 Infographic

Where the Trees Are - US

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With launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", #Earth360 science will grow in unprecedented ways

#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy

"You can manage only what you can measure"

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#EarthScience data is coming in and being openly distributed

Be a Planet Citizen, a Citizen Scientist

Use your digital tools as a Planet Scientist and Citizen

Take up the challenge with NEX and #OpenSource and #PlanetAPI ventures available for the first time

NASA NEX Earth Sciences Asks the Public to Join In

Add your #PlanetCitizen talent to a future of seeing with an #EarthPOV

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Eyes on the Earth [7] [8] [9] [10]