| Atmospheric carbon dioxide has now reached its highest level in the past 800,000 yrs. US space agency NASA launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft Wednesday from California into the night skies to study global warming, NASA TV showed.
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying the OCO-2 spacecraft, the first dedicated NASA mission to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on global scales, blast off at 2:56 a PDT (0956 GMT) Wednesday from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Engineers successfully established communication with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, NASA said in a statement...............................................Full Article: Source |