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CO2 mission plunges

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Anne L. Fischer, Senior Editor, [email protected]

We know carbon dioxide is all around, but pinpointing its location and quantity was the focus of a recent NASA mission. Unfortunately, a satellite with instrumentation onboard to monitor carbon throughout the Earth’s atmosphere crashed into the ocean shortly after launch. Developed by Hamilton Sundstrand’s Energy, Space & Defense facility in Pomona, Calif., the Orbiting Carbon Observatory was a $270 million spacecraft with an instrument that included a telescope and three high-resolution grating spectrometers. The telescope was designed to capture sunlight reflected off the Earth’s...Read full article

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    Published: April 2009
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