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 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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#EarthScience 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

NASA Earth Sciences Asks 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]