NASA’s New Carbon Counter Collects Its First Data

Via NASA's Earth Observatory:


The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 will help scientists quantify the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This image shows some of the first data taken by OCO-2 as it flew over Papua-New Guinea on August 6, 2014. Each plot shows three different spectra, or wavelength, observed by the satellite’s spectrometers: 760 nanometers (atmospheric oxygen), 1610 nanometers (carbon dioxide), and 2060 nanometers (carbon dioxide). When displayed as an image, the spectra appear like bar codes. The dark lines indicate absorption by molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide. Read more at 
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