Carbon Observing Mission previewed on This Week @NASA
This week, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission was discussed during a prelaunch briefing at NASA headquarters. OCO-2, the first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere, will provide a more complete, global picture of CO-2, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas affecting our climate. Launch is scheduled for July 1 from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. Also, Bolden at National Aeronautic Association, Hopkins visits National Institutes of Health, Cargo ship leaves ISS, Orion’s heat shield installed, Sample return robots and Sally Ride: Life Stories!
I was pretty sure we produced CO (Carbon Monoxide, not Dioxide) through the burning of fossil fuels…..CO2 is what plants breathe and convert into O2….So suddenly our fossil fuels produce CO2….that makes no sense, and this shift in terms has bothered me for a while.
Deep Space
Why don't you just go pick one off the Moons surface? What if trying to capture one. You sling it into Earth? Then what?