OCO-3

Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3

active Mission

OCO-3 is a space instrument investigating how and where carbon dioxide is distributed on Earth, as it relates to growing urban populations and changing patterns of fossil fuel combustion, and, for the first time, measuring daily variations in carbon dioxide release and uptake by major tropical rainforests.

Type

Instrument

Launch

May 3, 2019

Target

Earth

Objective

Measure daily carbon dioxide variations

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NASA Space Missions Pinpoint Sources of CO2 Emissions on Earth

20 Years of Observing Earth from the International Space Station

Study: Decaying Urban Greenery Plays a Surprising Role in Carbon Emissions

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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 Gets First Data

Article5 years ago

Preliminary carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from OCO-3 over the United States. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

First Data from NASA’s OCO-3 Mission: ‘CO2, I See You’

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