The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 is a NASA-JPL instrument designed to measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. The instrument is mounted on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility on boa
The Japanese Experiment Module, EFU 3 is the occupied location second from the left.
Space-based measurements of carbon dioxide are used to help answer questions about Earth's carbon cycle. There are a variety of active and planned instruments for measuring carbon dioxide in Earth's a
Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3
…Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Space-based measurements of carbon dioxide Total Carbon Column Observing Network…
Artist's conception of OCO-2, the second successful high precision (better than 0.3%) CO2 observing satellite.