Measuring Carbon Dioxide - the CO2 Sounder

Developers of the CO2 Sounder Lidar snapped this photo during a field campaign over California and Nevada earlier this year.

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A new Instrument to measure global Carbon Dioxide levels from space. (NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center)

​Scientists say the development of this technology depends on whether the National Research Council endorses the mission in its next Earth Science Decadal Survey, which represents a consensus of the most important research areas and the order in which they should be built.
 

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