NASA's Carbon Observatory Blasts off on Workhorse Delta II to Measure Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gas and Watch Earth Breathe

Following a nearly three-year long hiatus, the workhorse Delta II rocket successfully launched NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to watching Earth breathe by studying Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) – the leading human-produced greenhouse gas and the principal human-produced driver of climate change. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) raced to orbit earlier this morning, during a […]