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https://www.space.com/nasa-geocarb-climate-change-mission-canceled
The agency still maintains its commitment to studying climate change.
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An artist’s representation of GeoCarb studying carbon gases above the Earth.(Image credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin/University of Oklahoma)
All good things must come to an end, and in the case of NASA’s GeoCarb mission, some good things must end before they really begin.
NASA has canceled the GeoCarb mission, which was a collaboration with the University of Oklahoma and Lockheed Martin that intended to put agreenhouse gas–monitoring satellite into geostationary orbit. GeoCarb would have measured levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane in the atmosphere about 4 million times per day. The mission wasselected by NASAin 2016.
“Decisions like this are difficult, but NASA is dedicated to making…
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