NASA Launches First Spacecraft Dedicated to CO2 Tracking

NASA has launched a new mission to measure global distribution of carbon dioxide sources and sinks. On July 2, 2014, the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) dedicated to study the Earth’s carbon dioxide (CO2) sources and sinks.  The observatory, launched on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from…