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NASA carbon counter reaches final orbit, returns data
Description: Just over a month after launch, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) - NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide - has maneuvered into its final operating orbit and produced its first science data, confirming the health of its science instrument. The observatory will study how carbon dioxide sources and sinks are distributed around the globe and how they change over time. [Source: NASA Climate Change News]
URL: http://climate.nasa.gov/news/1135/
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Source: NASA Climate Change News
Publish Date: 8/11/2014
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