Tuesday, May 6, 2014

NASA will watch the glow of trees from space to determine their health.

Thanks for the tweet: Milance @jhxprnc & ●Dj SantiMix ☁●! @DjSantimixer

NASA's New Orbiter Will Watch Plants Photosynthesize from Space

"In July of this year, however, NASA will launch its own satellite called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2). The instruments on board the OCO-2 will be taking precise measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in addition to peeping large-scale plant fluorescence. The upshot? The OCO-2 can record observations a very speedy 24 times per second. Compare that to the observations made only once every four seconds by the GOSAT, and we're looking at almost a 100-fold increase in data density. Pretty impressive."

link to article here.

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