A NASA satellite being prepared for launch early on Tuesday is expected to reveal details about where carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas tied to climate change, is being released into Earth’s atmosphere on a global scale. The two-year, $465 million project, known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, also will be able to pinpoint where the planet’s forests and ocean are reabsorbing atmospheric carbon, a cycle that is key to Earth’s temperature.
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