OCO-2
July 2, 2014
RELEASE 14-182
NASA Launches New Carbon-Sensing Mission to Monitor Earth’s Breathing
"Climate change is the challenge of our generation," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "With OCO-2 and our existing fleet of satellites, NASA is uniquely qualified to take on the challenge of documenting and understanding these changes, predicting the ramifications, and sharing information about these changes for the benefit of society."
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Follow the tweets of the OCO-2 bird
http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/ Earth Right Now
https://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/teams/#
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Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2 Historic launch #planetcitizen mission to study #earthsatmosphere
"First Light!" [2] [3] OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'
What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 #Earth360 [4]
Earth observing satellites, the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by #OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Looking closer at OCO-2 [5] [6] [7]
Earth science data is coming in and being openly distributed. Take up the challenge, perhaps with NEX here and multiple venues that are being made available for the first time.
Add your resources. With the launch of OCO-2, a 'game changer', the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways.
#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy
"You can manage only what you can measure"
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NASA Earth Sciences Asks Public to Join In
Add your #PlanetCitizen talent to a future of seeing with an #EarthPOV
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