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Artist’s concept of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. The mission,
scheduled to launch in early 2009, will be the first spacecraft dedicated
to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the principal human-produced
driver of climate change. It will provide the first global picture of the
human and natural sources of carbon dioxide and the places where this
important greenhouse gas is stored. Such information will improve global
carbon cycle models as well as forecasts of atmospheric carbon dioxide
levels and of how our climate may change in the future.
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NASA/JPL
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